Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Upgrade Install Snafu
Digital River, the company behind electronic purchasing for Microsoft’s Vista and Office 07, has decided to make the Windows 7 upgrade package a .exe file which is causing many problems for users, as the package contains two .box files that native windows does not know how to ‘unload’. the workaround is to fire up a command-line tool called “Oscdimg” which must be downloaded from Microsoft, to create an .iso out of the downloaded files. Downloadsquad.com has made a guide to converting it to an iso, and Microsoft engineers are working on a fix to make the downloadable exe work by itself.
Rather than provide customers with a disk image, or .iso file — which could easily be burned to an installation DVD — as Microsoft did with the Windows 7 previews it supplied users this year, Digital River delivered an .exe file named “Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64.exe” and two additional files with the “.box” filename extension.
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