Microsoft Windows 7 to Ship on USB Flash Drives ?

qwerty_lesh · Jun 30, 2009

Although I didnt read though all the comments nor did i through all of the article, I did a search and dont see any mention of read only. :confused:

Theyd be crazy to not distribute these as read only, imagine your only installation media you have to install your OS corrupts because its a writable file system :nutkick:

tomkaten · Jun 30, 2009

newtekie1 said:
Even at $1 a flash drive, Microsoft is looking at spending way more for USB flash drives compared to DVDs. DVDs sell to the consumer for $0.18 a disc, flash drives sell for $9 a drive. Yes, Microsoft probably would get a discount for buying in bulk, but that applies to DVDs also. So you are looking at $0.01 a disc... It just doesn't make financial sense to distribute software this way, increasing costs, especially in an economy like todays.

Oh come on, mate, it's not like they're charging an extra Maserati for those.

When the OS itself costs in the 300 bucks range, I doubt most people would frown over a huge added extra cost of 2 $. I know I wouldn't and there are probably others that think like me.

And yes, they should make it read-only. But that's actually easy, since there are drives that come with a "read-only" switch, like floppy disks used to.

Easo · Jun 30, 2009

I want!

DaMulta · Jun 30, 2009

Now lets start selling games on them and end the scarcest that kill games.

WhiteLotus · Jun 30, 2009

DaMulta said:
Now lets start selling games on them and end the scarcest that kill games.

I hope this will be implemented soon. It would cut down on packaging for the game as well.

Necrofire · Jul 1, 2009

OR, what they could do is just offer a very very easy way of transferring the disk to a flash drive and make it bootable

although, formatting a flash drive NTFS, running bootsect /nt60 driveletter:, then copying all the files off the disk is pretty simple IMO.

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Microsoft Windows 7 to Ship on USB Flash Drives ?

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