Windows 7 official pricing released; select pre-orders start tomorrow (6/26/09 - 7/11/09)

[M0RPH]

$49 is a great deal for home premium, but is anyone else bothered by paying for something they won't get for another 4 months?

Seems like they should have done the pre-orders closer to launch of the product.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Pollock

Originally posted by: corkyg
Hmmm1 The ol' TechNet subscription looks better and better.

How so? Isn't one of those $350 a year?

I'm on my 2nd year - $250. I get ALL of MS major software, including the OS's that are legally installed on up to 10 machines. Go figure.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: M0RPH
$49 is a great deal for home premium, but is anyone else bothered by paying for something they won't get for another 4 months?

Microsoft would certainly like to have some positive early sales results to report. In the months before a software upgrade, both PC and software sales will go into a major slump without some sort of "deal".

It IS a "good deal". MS has also taken an unusual step in offering unlimited numbers of free trials of W7. So it's not exactly like buying blind.

 

[MBrown]

Ok. So I have Vista Home Premium x64. Can I only upgrade to W7 Home Premium or can I go to Professional. I also have xp home. Can I only upgrade to 7 Home Premium?

 

[mshan]

Anyone know where on the Newegg website the pre-order will be? (operating systems section, home page, other?)

 

[mshan]

Alive at Amazon. Just search for Windows 7.

Home Premium: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...K/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Professional: http://www.amazon.com/Microsof...&qid=1245989105&sr=8-2

I am looking for 32 bit. Links don't specific 32 or 64 bit upon quick scan.

 

[CrookedRain]

Originally posted by: mshan
Alive at Amazon. Just search for Windows 7.

Home Premium: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...K/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Professional: http://www.amazon.com/Microsof...&qid=1245989105&sr=8-2

I am looking for 32 bit. Links don't specific 32 or 64 bit upon quick scan.

That's because it comes with both.

All Windows 7 editions include both 32-bit and 64-bit regardless of whether you choose to download or the packaged product.

 

[mshan]

Thanks for info!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: CrookedRain
That's because it comes with both.

All Windows 7 editions include both 32-bit and 64-bit regardless of whether you choose to download or the packaged product.

Sweet!!!

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: plion

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: KeypoX
my question is why would any one buy this before 7/11?

What happens on 7/11?

LOL this... why pay now when you can pay latter? Possible find out about cheaper prices, maybe a freebe will pop up somehow. I prob wont buy it till RC expires though...

Originally posted by: M0RPH
$49 is a great deal for home premium, but is anyone else bothered by paying for something they won't get for another 4 months?

Seems like they should have done the pre-orders closer to launch of the product.

 

[CrookedRain]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
my question is why would any one buy this before 7/11?

Because they don't charge you until it ships. You can even cancel your order anytime before then.

 

[TheUnk]

$50 more for XP mode, which is the only thing I'd possibly use in Pro vs. Home Premium.

No thanks..

XP Mode should be standard.

 

[MBrown]

w00t. just pre ordered home premium

 

[trmiv]

I can't figure out for sure, are you charged immediately or when this ships?

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Do the TechNet installation require that you keep renewing TechNet?
I may be wrong, but I thought that the licenses / activations stopped working if your TechNet subscription lapsed.

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Pollock

Originally posted by: corkyg
Hmmm1 The ol' TechNet subscription looks better and better.

How so? Isn't one of those $350 a year?

I'm on my 2nd year - $250. I get ALL of MS major software, including the OS's that are legally installed on up to 10 machines. Go figure.

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: trmiv
I can't figure out for sure, are you charged immediately or when this ships?

When it ships.

 

[MichaelD]

LOL this... why pay now when you can pay latter? Possible find out about cheaper prices, maybe a freebe will pop up somehow. I prob wont buy it till RC expires though...

That's what I'm planning on doing as well. Why pay full price right now when you can wait. The price can only go down. Although it wouldn't surprise me if MS changes their mind about when the RC expires or starts giving you nagging popups and/or restarting randomly. Why let you use the OS for free when we can force you to have to pay for it now?

Being that I have XP (and a corporate version) there is no upgrade path for me. I'm going to have to buy the full version of Ultimate. We still use XP at work...no Vista. So there's no hope of me getting a corp version of W7.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

LOL this... why pay now when you can pay latter? Possible find out about cheaper prices, maybe a freebe will pop up somehow. I prob wont buy it till RC expires though...

That's what I'm planning on doing as well. Why pay full price right now when you can wait. The price can only go down. Although it wouldn't surprise me if MS changes their mind about when the RC expires or starts giving you nagging popups and/or restarting randomly. Why let you use the OS for free when we can force you to have to pay for it now?

Being that I have XP (and a corporate version) there is no upgrade path for me. I'm going to have to buy the full version of Ultimate. We still use XP at work...no Vista. So there's no hope of me getting a corp version of W7.

If I understand correctly, the "no upgrade path" means that you have to do a fresh install. However, you can still purchase the upgrade version of Ultimate, Pro, or HP since you have a valid license of XP.

As far as the "why now" is concerned, the current pre-order is presumably cheaper than the actual list price. It may go down from the list price in the future, but I don't think it'll go down to $50/$100 for the early pre-order price.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm not the "EULA/licensing pro" but technically, my employer has the XP license, not me. I use it at home with their consent.

I don't think I can use their license to upgrade...or can I?

 

[nitromullet]

This seems like a no brainer IMO. I bought Vista Ultimate retail for the ungodly price of $400, and I just upgraded all 3 of our PCs for half that - two Home Premiums for our laptops and one Pro for my main rig.

In retrospect I shouldn't have paid that much for Vista, but XP was the dominant OS for like 7 years so I was hoping to get more life out of Vista than I did.

edit: I get why some people will wait, but IMO a legal copy of an MS OS for $50!?! Is it going to get much better than that?

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: Dahak

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
so it looks like Windows 7 Professional supports XP mode and Windows Home Premium does not.

Correct... provided that your cpu supports either intel vt or amd-v

So I'm assuming that my core i7 supports intel VT as I can see up to 8 threads when I run LinX or Prime 95

 

[nitromullet]

btw... I know some people were curious about upgrades...

"All Editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista® qualify you to upgrade."

http://promotions.newegg.com/M...fPreSale%2f118x118.gif

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm not the "EULA/licensing pro" but technically, my employer has the XP license, not me. I use it at home with their consent.

I don't think I can use their license to upgrade...or can I?

I see what you mean. You would be paying to upgrade their license. I thought you were saying that you couldn't upgrade a personal copy of XP.

Also, was there a reason you need Ultimate versus Pro?

 

[trmiv]

Well screw it, I pre-ordered. I've been using Linux at home for the past three years and never thought I'd go back to Windows at home. But my job is supporting Windows. I've honestly never even used Vista since we use XP at work, but we're moving to Windows 7 when it comes out so I better get used to it.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: jalaram

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm not the "EULA/licensing pro" but technically, my employer has the XP license, not me. I use it at home with their consent.

I don't think I can use their license to upgrade...or can I?

I see what you mean. You would be paying to upgrade their license. I thought you were saying that you couldn't upgrade a personal copy of XP.

Also, was there a reason you need Ultimate versus Pro?

No, not particularly. AFAIK, the only diff b/t Ultimate an Pro is Bitlocker...and something else (multiple remote desktops?). But Pro is $300 and Ultimate is $320..$20 makes no diff at the $300 pricepoint.

Side note: $300?! C'mon MS!!! :roll: