Good Ol MS
The Old Bloke
Aussies it is US$160.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
Doug
son of a bitch
Why would anyone want to pre-order before even seeing it?
Isn't it a bit like saying,
I don't care if it's absolute crap, I still want it!
It is also like buying a New Apartment off the Plan, you have
no real guarantee it is going to look and feel like the artists
Impression. And of the same quality as in the Brochure.
Rob
Due for a trip mid next year US/Can may pick a copy up when I'm there
at that sort of price.
steam3801
<bitchi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The Old Bloke wrote:
>> For US and Canadian Win 7 home Premium can be ordered for US$50. For
>> Aussies it is US$160.
>>
>> See
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
>>
>>
>> You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
>>
>>
>> Doug
>
>Why would anyone want to pre-order before even seeing it?
Ummm, been available for about 6 months now. Been using it myself for
last 2-3 months.
Only one comment .....
S-M-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-T-H!!!!
--
steam3801
Computer-ji, D, lock kiya jaye!
atec 7 7
SG1
"The Old Bloke" <le0pa...@XgmailX.com> wrote in message
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of FTA. Oh with the exception of drugs.........
Rod Speed
> The Old Bloke <le0pa...@XgmailX.com> wrote
>> For US and Canadian Win 7 home Premium can be ordered for US$50. For Aussies it is US$160.
>> See
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
>> You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
> Don't we have a FTA with Yanks????
Doesnt require identical pricing.
> You know same pricing and no taxes type of FTA.
We dont have anything even remotely resembling anything like that.
> Oh with the exception of drugs.........
Utterly mangled all over again.
son of a bitch
you have been testing a beta version, it will NOT be the same as the
final release. You are a unpaid tester working for Microsoft.
Don McKenzie
why would you pay out extra to buy the professional version of W7, so
you can run XP, when XP already runs XP?
Now if only wine (Linux) would run everything I need, I would dump M$.
Don...
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The Old Bloke
"Don McKenzie" <5...@2.5A> wrote in message
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> The Old Bloke wrote:
>> For US and Canadian Win 7 home Premium can be ordered for US$50. For
>> Aussies it is US$160.
>>
>> See
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
>>
>>
>> You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
>
> why would you pay out extra to buy the professional version of W7, so you
> can run XP, when XP already runs XP?
>
> Now if only wine (Linux) would run everything I need, I would dump M$.
>
>
> Don...
>
>
>
> --
> Don McKenzie
IMHO the march towards 64 bit is well under way. Support for XP (32 and 64
versions) will not continue for ever. Change to Win7 (or later) is coming.
I am running Vista64, Win7 64, Ubuntu 9.04 and XP 32. Some apps will not
run under these OSs. Vista64 is my host system and I use vmware
workstation, which I like. However I can see some people preferring a
bundled virtualization.
I will have no need for the Professional version, as I will probably stay
with vmware.
Ubuntu is extremely good and free. However, as you say, wine is not the
answer for all apps. And I still need to drop to the Unix-like terminal.
Until this is unnecessary, I suspect that Linux will not become mainstream.
Regards
Doug
TT
"atec 7 7" <"atec 77 "@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Shouldn't we wait for SP1 to be on the safe side ;-) Or is
M$ up to it's old tricks? Remembering Win ME was really a
Win98 SP ;-)
Cheers TT
steam3801
<bitchi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hardly. Testers are expected to give feedback; it's just for the
novelty for me.
son of a bitch
I would have to pretty naive to think their software isn't sending info
back to them in one form or another.
atec 7 7
> "atec 7 7" <"atec 77 "@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> --
>>> steam3801
>>> Computer-ji, D, lock kiya jaye!
>> Repeating my self , vista as it should be .
>
> Shouldn't we wait for SP1 to be on the safe side ;-) Or is
> M$ up to it's old tricks? Remembering Win ME was really a
> Win98 SP ;-)
>
> Cheers TT
>
>
The upgrade from vista to win7 is the sp1
son of a bitch
WinMe was only a stop gap.
But there is no way in hell I'll ever use a M$ product until the
first service pack is released or 6 months which ever comes first.
Rob
I think when you download a copy there is a clause that requires your
computer enabled to give feedback.
Fred
The cheaper price pre-order upgrade offer available to the US, UK, Canada or
Japan is for a limited time only.
I have read that it will disappear once a certain number of copies have been
sold as per the asterisk on the linked page.
Apparently when the equivalent of a years retail Vista sales is reached it
finishes.
They will be giving away copies though to people who buy qualifying
computers with certain versions of Windows from now until the release of
Win7.
In the US and Canada the offer begins on June 26, 2009 and will continue
while supplies last, or until July 11, 2009, whichever comes first.
UK says The offer begins on 15th July, 2009 and will end on 9th August, 2009
will_s
"son of a bitch" <bitchi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Because its cheaper and many have tried the RC1 and found it very very good
The Old Bloke
"will_s" <wil...@william.com> wrote in message
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Agreed RC1 is very good. Even if one wants to wait till SP1 before
installing, I would still buy a preorder at US$50 instead of US$160
Kwyjibo
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:37:32 +1000, son of a bitch
>> <bitchi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Old Bloke wrote:
>>>> For US and Canadian Win 7 home Premium can be ordered for US$50. For
>>>> Aussies it is US$160.
>>>>
>>>> See
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>> Why would anyone want to pre-order before even seeing it?
>>
>> Ummm, been available for about 6 months now. Been using it myself for
>> last 2-3 months.
>>
>> Only one comment .....
>>
>> S-M-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-T-H!!!!
>> --
>> steam3801
>> Computer-ji, D, lock kiya jaye!
>
> you have been testing a beta version,
Wrong. You might want to learn the difference between beta and RC software.
> it will NOT be the same as the
> final release. You are a unpaid tester working for Microsoft.
Wrong again.
--
Kwyj.
son of a bitch
that's your reality
atec 7 7
will_s
"The Old Bloke" <le0pa...@XgmailX.com> wrote in message
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So would I but at US$160 Vista is looking better all the time :-)
will_s
"The Old Bloke" <le0pa...@XgmailX.com> wrote in message
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A hell of a lot of home computers have 2 main uses.......the internet which
Linux does ok and games which
linux doesn't do. And I have never liked wine, preferred beer in my younger
days .
TT
Ahhhh.... thought so ;-) I think I will still wait a while
though. After all I went straight from Win 98 to XP Pro
skipping all the garbage in the middle.
Cheers TT
TT
"son of a bitch" <bitchi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps this new one is as well?
>
> But there is no way in hell I'll ever use a M$ product
> until the
> first service pack is released or 6 months which ever
> comes first.
Couldn't agree more but I prefer the SP1 route myself.
Cheers TT
SG1
"Don McKenzie" <5...@2.5A> wrote in message
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>> For US and Canadian Win 7 home Premium can be ordered for US$50. For
>> Aussies it is US$160.
>>
>> See
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx
>>
>>
>> You can check for yourself by clicking on change the country
>
> why would you pay out extra to buy the professional version of W7, so you
> can run XP, when XP already runs XP?
>
> Now if only wine (Linux) would run everything I need, I would dump M$.
Is that a little whine Don?????
son of a bitch
The only exception here being vista, It took forever to release a
service pack, some were wondering if was ever going to happen. All I
ever read about vista was problem after problem, and then came the
compatibility issues. You would have to be pretty brave to say, we're
going to move our business onto the Vista/Office 2007 Platform.
Hunter01
Haha no it wasn't, Win 98 SE was the semi-stable release of 98, ME was
just an abortion that climbed out of the bucket before it could be
flushed!!!
TT
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Cheers TT
TT
gone back to 2003 for all my machines. You can understand
why Apple sales are up when there is this absolute garbage
around ;-)
Cheers TT