Even when running the Windows setup from within Windows, this is the option you get when upgrading from Windows8 developer preview to Consumer Preview. What a User Friendly screen! If I can “chose” what I want to upgrade, why only give me one option – which is nothing? Interestingly I could keep settings if I was upgrading from Windows7 – so it’s weird how you can’t keep settings from the Developer preview to the consumer preview. The Windows 8 faq has a table of what can be kept when upgrading from previous versions of Windows.
| Current operating system | What you can keep |
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| Windows 8 Consumer Preview |
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| Windows Developer Preview |
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| Windows 7 |
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| Windows Vista |
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| Windows XP |
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It might be a good idea to have the upgrade options within the application itself and not as a link to an external website – this way the user gets to see what options they have.
