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Windows 7 pre-order pricing (Full versions: Premium £/?49.99, Pro £/?99.99)

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Originally posted by: bznotins
I think MS should just give everybody the software for free and offer to come over and cook you breakfast every morning, too.

1. MS is providing a discount for people to be "guinea pigs". It's called FREE. I'm using the Win7 RC right now at no cost. Hard to beat FREE.
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*IF* you buy vista between the dates mentioned, sure, it is free, as it should be.
As it should, also be, a minimal cost to provide win 7 to all previous vista owners, as a "We're sorry" campaign.
As for using win7 RC now for "free", guess what, your just a glorified tester. That is why it is "free". Hard to beat free? Sure. Just look at Fedora, Debian, and so on.

2. When it finally is released, they already offer a nice discount for people with older versions of Windows: It's called upgrade pricing. Oh, and BTW, they're only charging you FIFTY BUCKS for said upgrade if you pre-buy tomorrow. If that's too expensive for you, then don't upgrade. MS owes you nothing, they're a business. Honda doesn't owe you a new cheap Civic to replace your old one every time a new version comes out, do they?
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$50 for the lowest version. $100 for the pro, and 0 for the others? How very nice of them. And stop comparing apples to oranges. This is *software*, not *hardware*.
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3. Don't lose your keys for your installed software. You should be wiping your PC every year or two anyway. Losing keys is your fault, not MS'. I still have keys I purchased 10 years ago and I have been through at least 8 formats/reinstalls since then.
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Glad you got all your keys in one place. And who says you should be wiping your PC every two years?

4. MS is doing the right thing by forcing XP users to wipe and reinstall. If they had to create code to do the transition smoothly, they will surely have compatibility problems galore. Trying to be backwards-compatible is one of the reasons Windows is so bloated. I'm all for leaving the past behind and reducing the bloat. I imagine you were on the "Vista is too Bloated" bandwagon and now you're criticizing them for trying to reduce that bloat.
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More nonsense.
There would be very little additional code required to convert the registry over to the new format, and guess what, it doesn't have to be part of the OS, the setup utility can handle it just fine.

A. Windows 7 is a great OS. I've been using the RC for a month or two and it's bug-free and FAST. It has great support for my SSD.
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Bug-free & fast? Guess you have very limited in scope testing. We have tons of pending issues with it.

B. They're giving plenty of notice to people buying today that the new OS is due out in October. Many companies (cough - Apple - cough) suppress news of their new products and let people buy the old version even up to the day before the new product is announced.
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I have almost the same rants against Apple... 😛

C. Upgrade from XP. Previously, MS wouldn't let people upgrade across gerations of OSes (e.g. from Win95 to Vista). Here they're letting you skip Vista. Yay for progress.
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It isn't a upgrade if you are forced to reinstall everything.

D. Pricing. The upgrades are cheaper than they've been for other MS OSes, and btw, the special pricing they're offering is ridiculously good.
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If you say so. We get all MS's offerings for a static price, so this doesn't really affect me, I just think they are still doing things wrong.
End rant.
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Ditto... again:disgust:
 
I don't understand all the bitching about MS, unless you're still dwelling in the past. They've done everything right with Win7, including this. (IMO of course).
 
Originally posted by: California Roll
I don't understand all the bitching about MS, unless you're still dwelling in the past. They've done everything right with Win7, including this. (IMO of course).
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MS bashing has always been fair game. pfft.. come-on, get with the program



Thanks OP, I'll be grabbing one or two myself.
 
I plan on grabbing three Professional and three Home Premium copies. Should be enough for the rigs in my house. The big question I have is, is 64-bit install media included this time around with all of the versions? It really should be, if MS intends to spur the 64-bit market at all this time around.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I plan on grabbing three Professional and three Home Premium copies. Should be enough for the rigs in my house. The big question I have is, is 64-bit install media included this time around with all of the versions? It really should be, if MS intends to spur the 64-bit market at all this time around.
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Jeez, for that price, just get a technet subscription....you get EVERY OS and major Microsoft application, and you get 10 licenses of each for $350.

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...bscriptions/renew.aspx
 
Originally posted by: CMC79
Vista licenses didn't allow you to move 32bit to 64; I have 32bit Vista Ultimate and to move to 64 bit would require me to buy a completely new license.
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WRONG

I bought the 32-bit version of Vista and installed it. I later downloaded the 64-bit version and used the same key. Worked like a charm.
 
Ok, I'm looking at the Operating Systems sections of both Newegg and BestBuy. I don't see Windows 7 listed yet. I thought that they went on sale at Midnight?

Edit: Thanks for the Amazon links, they got my business. Even better, free shipping and no tax!!

Too bad they had limit 3 on both editions. Oh well, that's what I wanted, but I have an extra $50 on this CC. I could order one more home premium.
 
Does a WindowsXP upgrade CD count as a valid upgrade path to Windows 7 upgrade? Or is there a chart listing such valid upgrade paths?
 
It doesn't really look like Professional or Ultimate has any features that I'd use, is the little chart on the Amazon page the only differences? That seems like a lot of money for not too much more stuff.
 
Originally posted by: ozone13
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I plan on grabbing three Professional and three Home Premium copies. Should be enough for the rigs in my house. The big question I have is, is 64-bit install media included this time around with all of the versions? It really should be, if MS intends to spur the 64-bit market at all this time around.
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Jeez, for that price, just get a technet subscription....you get EVERY OS and major Microsoft application, and you get 10 licenses of each for $350.

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...bscriptions/renew.aspx
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Does this mean I could get 10 licenses of Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Home Server, Office 2007, etc., for $350 per year?

 
Wait...... it says Windows 7 UPGRADE in my shopping cart at Newegg... what does that mean exactly? If it's an upgrade, do I have to have an existing version of XP or Vista in order to "upgrade" from? I built a new computer and am using the free Windows 7 RC on it, no previous version of XP or Vista was ever used on this new system. Will the Home/Professional Upgrade work seeing as how I am not "upgrading" from XP or Vista?
 
Yaaaaawn, back to bed....grabbed mine now in case of sell-out!
Goofed and got mine from Microsoft (tax and shipping).
 
Guys, at the Microsoft Store it says "Your card will not be charged until your order is shipped or the product is made available for download."

But at Amazon you have to pay for it now?
 
OK read a lot but still have some questions. I have home 32 and would love to move to a 64 bit OS. It says in one part that I can if my computer is 64 cap, which it is. But in another section it says I have to have a 64 OS. And then in another section it says I can install a 64 on a 32 but I need to do a custom install. Oh my OS is OEM and acer makes you pay for the disk set. Guess I have to by a cheap 64 SO(lol) to install win7 64? Any help, please
 
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