Windows XP preview Program

[Adul]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/preview/order.asp

only 10 bucks to test it out. :Q

 

[caballo]

Why, you are not receiving a product, just a demo and most companies give their demos free since it is a very good marketing tool. It is a ripoff.
They want to show you their product and they want you to pay for it. It is like going to a car dealer and having to pay for the test drive.
Should't this go to the Operating Systems forum? it does not have to do with hardware.

 

[Noriaki]

I to would like the demo to be free....but I'd rather pay $10 to try out RC1 and RC2 and decide I don't like it than pay $150 to try out the full version and decide I don't like it.

 

[CQuinn]

caballo is wrong.

You would be recieving the product.
This is the same as when MS did previews for Windows 95 and Windows 2000.

"Just a demo" implies that all you would be getting is a slideshow presentation with
screenshots and product details, not something that you can actually make use of.

If you are a big name OEM, or have the cash for the full MSDN subscription, you will
get a copy gratis.

But for the rest of the world 10 bucks is a small price to be able to legitimately
evaluate Windows XP the same as the OEMs do. Plus having access to a network of
other previewers to share notes and gripes months before the OS actually hits the
streets can help build quite an advantage in technical experience with it.

(For those who weren't around then, the preview program for Windows 95 cost about
three times as much, and only included the Beta2 release).

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In itself, this announcement should probably go to the OS forum. But you can consider this
a precusor of the threads that will arrive later this month, when people start reporting
how WinXP is working with their rigs.

 

[Adul]

I may sign up for this to try it out. I want to know how the pro version runs.