I'm trying not to complain too much, but some times you have to. Today I decided to upgrade my main machine to Windows 7 Release Candidate, while working on the laptop. The first attempt failed due to lack of disc space - it's needs 10Gb free - but I soon solved that. Then I left the upgrade to trundle away until the final stage of transferring files, settings and programs, whien 43% of the way through (ooh, so close), I received the annoying statement that there wasn't enough disc space free and it would revert to the previous version. So, you checked how much space I needed, installed, and then changed your mind. Way to go to give me a good impression of the product.

Now I know I need to rejig my partition sizes, but it strikes me as odd that the installer reports it has enough space at the start, then doesn't at the end. It did say it would prefer to have 16Gb free, but didn't say it would fail the install. Although whether it's failed is another matter; apparantly it's "sending diagnostic information to Microsoft", but there's no progress and no indication that anything is actually happening. ooh, ooh, now wait, it's rebooting....

Nope, it's rolling back the install. So, do I now try and free up more space or just bite the bullet and install from scratch, which means installing everything.