http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Most people will have to buy it for 300$ like me or 200$ (I don't need the ultimate version but i want the pro)

Upgrade version is lame many problems come along with it if you familiar with this path]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/At this price level it is better to purchase Technet subsciption and have access to more MS apps on any number of PCs
]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
it should be 99$/199$ retailer instead of 199$/299$ (Home-Pro versions) not like they wont sell zillions of copies... Microsoft went a little greedy with this one]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Problems will be for sure, MS has experience in good, fast betas and slow crashing all over alphas.
Glad we agree, what Vista hardware does not work for you in W7 ?
]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
i have no problems with the software between Windows vista and 7, only some problems with the hardware but i expect official drivers to be out once that windows 7 get released so no worries and i'm using W7 beta maybe they will fix it by the time windows 7 get released who knows]]>Jun 25th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/but i guess if you can jus wait a couple more days after release day youll b able to obtain a "free" copy of it. always happens with ms...]]>Jun 25th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Yeah your 10.x service pack is $29 this time. However,up till this time it was significantly more, like $99.99 or $129.99.]]>Jun 25th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
32 bit and 64 bit run side by side on Windows too.]]>Jun 25th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/From the statistics I've seen, only about %5 of Windows is sold in the retail version, and Home Premium is fine for most people; OEM Vista Home Premium is only $100 at NewEgg. An OEM license is tied to the motherboard, so retail's only worth it if you're going to change motherboards twice before upgrading to a new version of Windows, or if you're going to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

@Scorch
Win7 has massive improvements under the hood as well; the beta's performance was much better than Vista's, and they substantially improved it AGAIN for the RC. It's been refactored and trimmed even down to the kernel and driver models. Kernel32's there for compatibility, but the much smaller KernelBase is the new heart of Windows.

Of course, Snow Leopard's not a service pack; it just might feel that way to some users. A couple of the major features are only significant for developers, so a good portion of Snow Leopard's impact is in the software it enables.

]]>Jun 25th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
Yes, you can do a full, clean install from an upgrade disc:

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/06/25/clean-install-with-windows-7-upgrade-media-what-about-x64-upgrades.aspx

]]>Jun 25th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
I'll give it a try just to shut up the whiny biyatches who claim Windows 7 is ten times better than Vista and 20 times better than XP. I'll clone my Windows XP Pro drive just in case some certain Ballmer sweat-puddle drinkers are full of sh!t.]]>Jun 25th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 26th 2009 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 26th 2009 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 28th 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Both Microsoft and AOL blog sites usually only like Canada and USA due to annoying international laws.

I hope you say yes, because engadget will become my F5 riddled bitch.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=789174]]>Jun 25th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/* UK: Windows 7 Home Premium (£49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (£99.99)

As usual, the UK gets shafted with pricing! Last time I checked - the exchange rate was not £1 = $1. Try $1.65 more like. I know the EU pisses you off Microsoft, but have a heart! Also how about giving Ultimate a more fair price - it does not justify its features for that price hike. Vista mistakes all over again. I never knew a single person who had Ultimate.
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What a bunch of wucking fankers. There was me feeling all nice about it being a price low enought to draw me away from the pirate bay but NO in cyberspace there IS NO currency converter.]]>Jun 25th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
And oh what's the difference between upgrade and full retail disc? Is it that you get better customer service with the retail disc right?

Anyways I think I'm gonna go upgrade route so long as there's compelling reason to get the full retail version.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Upgrade is for computers with XP or Vista already installed and want to keep the same settings and files. No clean install though.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
OEM version allows you to install the OS on ONE computer only, and then it will ALWAYS be tied to that computer. Less support, if any.

Upgrade version requires the disk of a previous Windows version in order to install. I am not sure if you can directly boot from the upgrade version to install or if you actually need to have the previous version of Windows installed before upgrading. I believe it comes some rather decent support. Also, upgrade paths are pre-determined by Microsoft. For Windows XP, you will NEED to do a clean install (wipe partition) before upgrading to Windows 7. For Windows Vista, you have the option of upgrading your current install and leaving your programs intact.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
Will I be able to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate?

I truly hope so.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e170eba1-5bab-401f-bbf5-00f0ee7fe0fb someone in here postet it earlier), you won't be able to upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. But to be a hundred percent sure, you probably should check yourselfe (before you wreck yourselfe)! =)]]>Jun 25th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
you can do clean install, you need XP or Vista disks
]]>Jun 26th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/Jun 25th 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/windows-7-official-pricing-announced-limited-pre-orders-start-t/
Windows can be placed on any machine where the hardware will support it.

I wonder, if Microsoft trying to push out home computer builders and enthusiasts who build their systems from scratch?
Big manufacturers get cut prices for volume keys as well as bundling software so it doesn't hit them as hard.

I tolerate MS products as necessary (and find Windows 7 to not be bad but maybe that's just in comparison to the Vista fail).
The only MS product I LIKE is the XBox 360 and I'm regretting recently buying a new one (passing the old one on to a friend) as it supports a company doing this with their pricing.

Windows 7 is essentially built on top of Vista's code with upgrades and all that.
Snow Leopard is essentially built on top of Leopard's code with upgrades and all that.

My hackintosh will be the happier system, I think.
Many more moves like this, MS, and I'll be buying directly from Apple instead of making a hackintosh.
(If all else fails there's always my trusty linux server anyway.)
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The same thing can be said about Windows 7.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:23AM