Popular Post somabc Posted June 25, 2009 Popular Post Posted June 25, 2009 In select markets, Microsoft is offering its customers the ability to preorder Windows 7 upgrade versions at a significantly reduced price. This is easily the most aggressive pricing Microsoft has ever offered for Windows. The low preorder price will vary per country: * US: Windows 7 Home Premium ($49.99) and Windows 7 Professional ($99.99) * Canada: Windows 7 Home Premium ($64.99) and Windows 7 Professional ($124.99) * Japan: Windows 7 Home Premium (¥7,407) and Windows 7 Professional (¥14,073) * UK: Windows 7 Home Premium (£49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (£99.99) * France and Germany: Windows 7 Home Premium (€49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (€109.99) 6
Arthur Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 That's cheaper than I thought it would be, although as usual Microsoft has just swapped the $ for £ in the case of the UK. Should be £35.28 and £70.58 respectively at todays exchange rate!!!
CSNM-Carl Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista - Ars Technica
Diello Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Note that you can't upgrade however, thanks to the s*dding EU Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you! | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com , though thankfully the prices are actually not far from that of the upgrade.
Gatt Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 BBC have an article on it... In Europe, the full version will be priced as if it were an upgrade version. In the UK, the Home Premium edition of Windows 7 will be £79.99. Ordinarily, an upgrade version would only be available to those with an existing Windows licence. However, as all European versions are full versions this distinction will not apply. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gifWINDOWS 7 UPGRADE PRICES Home Premium - £79.99 Professional - £189.99 Ultimate - £199.99 By contrast buying this edition in a shop will cost £149.99. The upgrade option was not available, Microsoft said, because it was trying to comply with European competition regulations. BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 pricing gets unveiled 1
cookie_monster Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 The whole £ to $ conversion on software and hardware makes my blood boil, it was especially bad when £1 got you $2 and you still hardley noticed when buying software. Back on thread those prices are closer to what they should be.
Andrew_C Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Ho Hum... Being gouged by the 'Merkins again. Where's the news in that? "Oh we're only trying to comply with your competition rules!" Anyone heard if they've actually paid any of the fines already levied?
torledo Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Note that you can't upgrade however, thanks to the s*dding EU Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you! | Ed So that ruling affects all 3 windows vista users then ?
Gatt Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Ok the way I interpret this is as follows.. Non-Europeans = 2 products -> Upgrade & Full Product both with different price tags Europeans = 1 Product -> Full Product with a price tag similar to the Upgrade version - £79.99 AFAIK the Full version also allows you to upgrade or a clean install (as in a blank HDD with no Windows OS on it!)
cookie_monster Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 @ GATT - yes i'm seeing it that way as well it 'looks' like a bonus for us as we'll get the full version for the price of an upgrade.
mpe Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Note that you can't upgrade however, thanks to the s*dding EU Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you! | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com , though thankfully the prices are actually not far from that of the upgrade. I'm sure Microsoft are gutted by this As opposed to any normal business who would seek any excuse not to offer a discount... Anyway the UK price appears to overcharge by £7.31 on home premium and £6.20 on professional compared with France and Germany. Wonder what UKIP have to say about this.
mpe Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 The whole £ to $ conversion on software and hardware makes my blood boil, it was especially bad when £1 got you $2 and you still hardley noticed when buying software. Especially when it's actually made somewhere which isn't twice as far away from the UK as the US. We even get charged more than the rest of the EU, which is ment to be illegal. Going by the recent elections most of the population appear happy to live in "Rip Off Britain" however.
LeMarchand Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 The whole £ to $ conversion on software and hardware makes my blood boil, it was especially bad when £1 got you $2 and you still hardley noticed when buying software. Software, hardware, legal downloads, DVDs... . Why the heck do we have to pay more for everything?
dannyjay Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 (This could be obvious, but I'll ask anyway) For using it at home, would you need anything more than Home Premium? Pro/Ultimate seems overly expensive for just using my machine for pictures and games lol. Work will obviously need Pro+
enjay Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Lack of upgrade path is annoying. Is this really being released with such a dull name as Windows 7? I was expecting it to have a shiny marketing name slapped on it nearer the time, but it really does seem to be going live as 7. So the numeric system goes 3, 95, 98, 2000 a few words and then 7? And based on that maths, Win7 is actually the 9th incarnation of Windows, counting 200, ME and Vista. Huh?!
tmcd35 Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 So the numeric system goes 3, 95, 98, 2000 a few words and then 7? And based on that maths, Win7 is actually the 9th incarnation of Windows, counting 200, ME and Vista. Huh?! Actually Windows 7 is er the 5th version of NT. The count goes.... 1 - NT3.51 2 - NT4 3 - 2000, XP (NT5) 4 - Vista (NT6) 5 - 7 (NT7) Go figure!
localzuk Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Actually Windows 7 is er the 5th version of NT. The count goes.... 1 - NT3.51 2 - NT4 3 - 2000, XP (NT5) 4 - Vista (NT6) 5 - 7 (NT7) Go figure! Don't you mean 1 - NT3.1 2 - NT3.5/3.51 3 - NT4 4 - Windows 2000 (NT5) 5 - Windows XP (NT 5.1/5.2) 6 - Windows Vista (NT 6) 7 - Windows 7 (NT 6.1)
enjay Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 What do MS have against the numbers 1 and 2?! On that note, they're skipping 13 in Office versions, aren't they - Office 2010 will be released as Office 14 despite 2007 being 12.
tmcd35 Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 (edited) Don't you mean 7 - Windows 7 (NT 6.1) Is it really only NT6.1? I thought they were going for NT7. Well in that case the name 'Windows 7' makes zero sense to me! What do MS have against the numbers 1 and 2?!. Nothing, there where Dos/Windows 1 and 2. The reason NT starts at 3.1 is because Dos/Windows 3.1 was the current version at time of release. They used NT3.1 to make is seem current with Windows 3.1. Edited June 26, 2009 by tmcd35
localzuk Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Is it really only NT6.1? I thought they were going for NT7. Well in that case the name 'Windows 7' makes zero sense to me! I just listed why it was version 7... NT7 will be the version after Windows 7.
enjay Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Well in that case the name 'Windows 7' makes zero sense to me! Giving further weight to why they should give it a name - especially since they clearly want to be Apple, and Mac OS now comes in animal names. So, with that in mind, what should Windows 7 be called instead?!
tmcd35 Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 Weeellll, If Apple are going for Big Cats. M$ should go for Dogz... Windows Poodle Windows Chiwawa Windows Yorkie etc...
cookie_monster Posted June 26, 2009 Posted June 26, 2009 An MS spokesperson said that they consider Windows 7 NT7 but they didn't give it a 7 build number to aid compatibility, apparently. What do MS have against the numbers 1 and 2?! They released NT3 to keep in line with the Windows version numbers, Windows 1, Windows 2, Windows 3/3.1 and then NT3. According to MS all of the 9x releases have version 4 numbers. Then it's onto NT5+ as localzuk stated above.
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