By Ryan Johnson editor at large

Pack your bags stay a wile because if your on a windows 7 beta right now and want to update its going to take you a long time. In sort Microsoft has remade the installation process of windows 7 and to make sure there they have made it right they are making people go back to vista and then upgrade with the new beta version of windows 7.

Quote from Microsoft

“We know many people (including tens of thousands at Microsoft) are relying on the pre-release builds of Windows 7 for mission critical and daily work, making this step less than convenient,” the company acknowledged in its blog. “We’re working hard to provide the highest quality release we can and so we’d like to make sure for this final phase of testing we’re supporting the most real world scenarios possible, which incremental build to build upgrades are not. At the same time everyone on the beta has been so great we wanted to make sure we at least offered an opportunity to make your own expert and informed choice about how to handle the upgrade.”

Of course if you happen to buy windows 7 when it is officially released you will not have to upgrade to vista then windows 7 this is just for the beta release versions.