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No, you probably won't be able to do that.
The process will be an in place upgrade and I assume it's going to be quite the process!
Three things I'm not sure of:
- whether your current key will serve as the new Product Key or you'll be issued a new one,
- whether you need to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Preparation Tool,
- whether at time of upgrade it will run the 'Upgrade Assistant'
(The Upgrade Assistant or the upgrade process itself may address the issues unique to your machine)
...but if it does and your machine is good to go, the upgrade process will start.
Sometime during the process you should be given the opportunity to save the iso file. Then your machine plus the iso will be encoded with a 'Unique Identifier' and a timestamp of some sort.
(Then you may be able to perform a clean install with that iso on that machine only for the supported lifetime of the device. (I will admit, this was kind of a grey area)
This is the process I was lead to believe was going to be implemented.