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Anyone need an upgrade?
« on: June 25, 2009, 04:57:49 PM »
Windows 7 pricing

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From June 26 to July 11, while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing.  It will be offering in the U.S. Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99, a savings of $150 and $200 respectively (over the full retail versions).  Canada and Japan enjoy similar deals.  Microsoft shows Europeans even more loving with Germany and France receiving Windows 7 Home Premium (€49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (€109.99) preorder prices.  The UK, also part of the EU, receives Windows 7 Home Premium (£49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (£99.99) preorder prices.

Obviously a solid deal, to anyone who's looking to get windows 7. May as well take advantage of it while you can!
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Re: Anyone need an upgrade?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2009, 06:52:20 PM »
Looks like the article was edited. It now says:

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From June 26 to July 11, while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing.  It will be offering in the U.S. Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99, a savings of $70 and $100 respectively (In the U.S. preorders are for upgrade versions).  Canada and Japan enjoy similar deals. 

Still is pretty awesome. This motivates me to preorder it, though I was planning on upgrading regardless. My desktop runs XP, but on an ancient 50GB hard drive. I'm going to get a new hard drive and just do a clean install.

Unfortunately, if I do that, I think I'll need the full versions of Windows 7, not the upgrade versions...
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Re: Anyone need an upgrade?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2009, 07:02:54 PM »
Quote from: Chaos2651 on June 25, 2009, 06:52:20 PM
Looks like the article was edited. It now says:

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From June 26 to July 11, while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing.  It will be offering in the U.S. Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99, a savings of $70 and $100 respectively (In the U.S. preorders are for upgrade versions).  Canada and Japan enjoy similar deals. 

Still is pretty awesome. This motivates me to preorder it, though I was planning on upgrading regardless. My desktop runs XP, but on an ancient 50GB hard drive. I'm going to get a new hard drive and just do a clean install.

Unfortunately, if I do that, I think I'll need the full versions of Windows 7, not the upgrade versions...

Windows 7 requires user to format if they're upgrading from XP, but i think you can still use the upgrade DISKS for it.

also: kinda sucks it wasnt really the full retail versions for that price

Edit: if i were you, i'd get your new hard drive, and ghost it using Clonezilla, so that you have your current install, and can use the upgrade disk on your new hard drive.
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Re: Anyone need an upgrade?
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2009, 07:11:13 PM »
Yeah, that would be probably be easiest. Certainly better than paying for the full version.

Still, saving $70 for an upgrade Home Edition is quite a good deal.
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Re: Anyone need an upgrade?
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2009, 07:18:07 PM »
i just found an article from back in feb. that says that microsoft stated that upgrading from XP with upgrade media will be possible, but it will still require a format, so yeah, you should be good to rock with the upgrade versions

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Re: Anyone need an upgrade?
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2009, 07:22:49 PM »
Yeah. Considering I expected to do a clean install anyways (the computer really needs it), that will work fantastically.
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