Author Topic: Pre-order Windows 7 for $50, starts today..... (Read 1282 times)

border · « **on:** June 26, 2009, 02:01:55 PM »

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx

Current Vista users can get Windows 7 Home Premium as a $50 upgrade pack. The number of pre-orders is limited, so nobody really knows when the offer expires.

Windows 7 Professional pre-order is $100.

What is the difference between Home and Professional? I have no idea. More multi-sku fun from Microsoft

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:05:02 PM »

Pass.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:06:17 PM »

Will probably just lift a MSDN lic. from work.

cool breeze · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:11:43 PM »

So, can Windows 7 do everything Vista can? I care mostly about support for games and programs, and Vista covers most of what I want at least.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:42:57 PM »

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So, can Windows 7 do everything Vista can?

more or less, plus it has a search function that actually works

Reb · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:16:02 PM »

Setting up a home network was freakishly easy with 2 laptops running Windows 7.
I can usually never get any kind of networking to work.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:20:10 PM »

If you use the computer all the time, as I think most of us here do, I'd recommend shelling out for the upgrade, at these prices. It's not THAT big an improvement from an end-user experience POV, but if your computer is a major part of your life minor improvements are still worth something.

M3wThr33 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:04:38 PM »

I'm running Vista Ultimate. Would a $50 upgrade to 7 Home Premium work? I'm leaning towards yes, but I'm not sure.

Reb · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:12:34 PM »

Quote from: M3wThr33 on June 26, 2009, 04:04:38 PM

I'm running Vista Ultimate. Would a $50 upgrade to 7 Home Premium work? I'm leaning towards yes, but I'm not sure.

So you edited out the relevant part?

M3wThr33 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:37:11 PM »

Oh, that'll be fine. And I don't know if that shit flies here. I'm sure it does, but it's not relevant.

Before I cared about Vista Ultimate for a handful of games, but it looks like that's not an issue anymore, at least I don't think.

Home Premium has Dreamscene support, right? It's mainly a cross-upgrade path that concerns me.

ManaByte · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:41:24 PM »

I'll wait for the student discount on Ultimate.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2009, 02:16:17 AM »

The Microsoft Store wouldn't take my order for some reason. It claimed there was a problem with "either my billing address or my credit card information", real helpful error reporting there. I ended up ordering it from Amazon.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2009, 02:31:57 AM »

windows 7 ultimate runs perfectly on a netbook, even with all the extra bullshit turned on

windows 7 coders

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2009, 02:58:40 AM »

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It should be $50 to go from XP to Seven.

it is, XP users can use the upgrade versions. though they have to do clean installs.

Reb · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2009, 06:52:02 AM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on June 27, 2009, 02:31:57 AM

windows 7 ultimate runs perfectly on a netbook, even with all the extra bullshit turned on

windows 7 coders

It boots up way slower than XP though.
I ended up using it regularly on my laptop, and rarely on my netbook.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15 on:** June 27, 2009, 10:58:45 PM »

Quote from: border on June 26, 2009, 02:01:55 PM

What is the difference between Home and Professional? I have no idea. More multi-sku fun from Microsoft

Meh, I probably just get Home.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2009, 12:18:21 AM »

Just to clarify, most apps that run in XP should run in W7 without any need for the "XP mode" VM that's in Professional. That's really just meant for uh "quirky" stuff, mostly internal business apps.

huckleberry · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2009, 02:21:18 PM »

anyone know if I can buy the XP -> 7 upgrade and install it on a BootCamp partition? I don't see why it couldn't be done but I don't want to purchase an upgrade only to have to purchase a full license later.

border · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2009, 02:54:31 PM »

Is there any reason an enthusiast/home user would need or want the Professional or Ultimate versions? I hate to feel like I'm buying the second-class ghetto version of an OS, but then again it doesn't look like the added features in Pro/Ultimate are much to drool over.

Ecrofirt · « **Reply #19 on:** June 29, 2009, 11:41:03 PM »

Quote from: border on June 28, 2009, 02:54:31 PM

Is there any reason an enthusiast/home user would need or want the Professional or Ultimate versions? I hate to feel like I'm buying the second-class ghetto version of an OS, but then again it doesn't look like the added features in Pro/Ultimate are much to drool over.

I dunno, I really like being able to remote into my PC. Can't do that with the Home Edition.

I'm sure they're likely to gimp the Local Users And Groups stuff in Computer Management in Home Premium as well. And they'll probably gimp the Shared Folders snap-in again as well.

Pro all the way.

Ecrofirt · « **Reply #20 on:** June 29, 2009, 11:42:13 PM »

Fuck, I'll still probably just get our site license for Enterprise from work. It looks like it has all the features of Ultimate.

Is there *anything* missing from Enterprise that's in Ultimate?

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2009, 03:11:57 AM »

IIRC, just BitLocker and being able to install multiple language packs.

edit: er wait, it does have those?

edit 2: googling about, http://windows7news.com/windows-7-ultimate/ says

"Windows 7 Ultimate is the nonplus ultra edition of the Windows 7 operating system as it is the only edition of Windows 7 that is feature complete. All other editions – with the exception of Windows 7 Enterprise which is Windows 7 Ultimate branded differently – lack features that are included in Windows 7 Ultimate."

So I guess Enterprise and Ultimate are the same thing with different names.

chronovore · « **Reply #22 on:** June 30, 2009, 11:54:54 PM »

A friend who works at Apple says their executive staff and planning departments could not possibly be any happier with Microsoft's handling of Vista's launch, its multiple SKUs, the incompatibility, and the apparent rush to move to Windows 7 and the perception of that move by their customers. Apparently there are a lot of people who switched in the last few years.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2009, 03:11:04 AM »

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the apparent rush to move to Windows 7 and the perception of that move by their customers.

WTF is with that perception, though? The time between Vista and W7 isn't really any less than most previous versions of Windows, XP to Vista was the exception. I'm sure MSFT will aim for a similar timeframe for W7 to W8 even if W7 is seen as successful.

Hey, I'll even do a comparison chart (consumer versions only):

Windows 1.0: Nov. 1985
Windows 2.0: Nov. 1987 (24 months)
Windows 2.1: May 1988 (6 months)
Windows 3.0: May 1990 (24 months)
Windows 3.1: Mar. 1992 (22 months)
Windows 95 (4.0): Aug. 1995 (41 months)
Windows 98 (4.1): Jun. 1998 (34 months)
Windows Me (4.9): Sep. 2000 (27 months)
Windows XP (NT5.1): Oct. 2001 (13 months)
Windows Vista (NT6.0): Jan. 2007 (63 months)

Windows 7 (NT6.1): Oct. 2009 (33 months)

Pretty much in line with all the previous non-Vista transitions.

chronovore · « **Reply #24 on:** July 01, 2009, 04:29:51 AM »

The perception may be the big explosion in computer usage that rolled up with Win 95 and continued to the present. For a lot of users the first OS they'd had was XP, which had the longest run.

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Author Topic: Pre-order Windows 7 for $50, starts today..... (Read 1282 times)