Network OS Installs

[Richard Pieri]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
> 
> Pardon that this may be a bit off topic, but I came up with an idea of booting 
> an OS (e.g., Win7) over the internet and pay for software license like utility.
> If one needs to upgrade from one OS (say Win7) to another OS (say Win8), then 
> simply reboot would do. 

Network boot is not a new idea.  Sun was doing it 30 years ago.

I don't see it working well for Windows but that is because of the way Windows and the Windows Installer function rather than the concept of network boot.

--Rich P.