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I don't want to do a clean install - I have just too much software to do that and I didn't have too much trouble with the Win 7 -> Win 8 in-place upgrade so I expect this should be similar. I will be upgrading Windows 8 Pro with Media Center. I have the Plus pack version with the build at 6514. I intend to keep ATI 2013 as long as possible because it has always been a difficult piece of software to upgrade.įrom what I've been able to read up until now (just days before the official release or 8.1) I think I can expect the upgrade to work and imaging should still work.
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In preparation I have updated all my drivers and such.
This weekend will see the deployment of Windows 8.1.