Posted on Friday, December 11 2009 @ 21:08 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Tech Report
writes Microsoft has released an open-source Windows 7 USB installer, you can download it
over here.
Users with netbooks and consumer ultraportable laptops can now upgrade to Windows 7 using a free, open-source tool... released by Microsoft this week. No, you haven't slipped into a bizarro dimension where Richard Stallman and Steve Ballmer have switched places. Rather, as Ars Technica reports, Microsoft has made the tool's source public after facing heat for including some code released under the GPL without offering its derived work under the same license.
The tool is now available as a free download from this page on the Microsoft Store. When run, the program pops up a setup wizard asking for an ISO disk image of the Windows 7 installer, which is one of the ways Microsoft distributes its operating system on the Microsoft Store. Once the tool has done its thing, users should be left with a bootable USB drive that behaves just like a Windows 7 installation DVD.
