Re: Windows 7 pricing
- From: "noman" <no_m_an@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:19:22 +0000 (UTC)
Shawk wrote:
This is interesting...
http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/06/25/Microsoft-Revea
ls-Windows-7-Pricing---Promotions/p1
For £50 I could be tempted by this...
Till July 11, MS is offering special price of $50 for Home Premium and
$100 for Professional. Both are upgrade versions, and both have x86 and
x64 versions in the box.
If Win7 is like Vista, then clean installs can be done using upgrade
DVD without any existing Windows installations, or DVD/serial-numbers
(for the previous OS) check. That makes upgrade-version just like the
retail one.
If you live near Microcenter, they have a special $10 off coupon, that
you can pick up till June 28. Then you can pick Win7 Home Premium
Upgrade for $40 at the day of release.
For XP users, this is a great time to upgrade. Vista is rock stable and
x64 in particular performs much faster on similarly equipped WinXP PCs.
As Win7's kernel is pretty much same as Vista (same advantages, and
disadvantages), Win7 automatically gets to be stable out of the box. It
even uses the same Vista drivers. It's similar to how things were
between WinXP and Win2K, except that this is an even smaller upgrade
step.
As a Vista x64 user, I'd have ignored Win7 at its regular price, but
$40 is too good to pass on. I wish though MS had not removed Windows
Movie Maker from Win7. It's a very flexible and surprisingly powerful
(for an OS-included) Vista application, if you like editing home videos.
--
Noman
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