Windows 7 now available for pre-order
Right on schedule, Microsoft has begun taking pre-orders for Windows 7. In the US anyway. Customers in the rest of the world will have to wait a little longer. But if you're in the US you can pre-order Windows 7 upgrade packages for about half off, bringing the price of Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade to $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional Upgrade to $99.99.
Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade will still set you back full price, or about $219.99 And at least at Amazon, there are no discounts for full retail versions of the operating systems yet. That means you'll end up paying $199.99 for Home Premium, $299.99 for Professional, and $319.99 for Ultimate.
All versions have a release date of October 22nd. Amazon is limiting pre-orders on Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and Windows 7 Professional Upgrade to 3 per customer, and the pre-order pricing expires on July 11th or once Microsoft sells a set number of pre-orders. Not that anybody knows exactly what that magic number is.
[via Engadget]
Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade will still set you back full price, or about $219.99 And at least at Amazon, there are no discounts for full retail versions of the operating systems yet. That means you'll end up paying $199.99 for Home Premium, $299.99 for Professional, and $319.99 for Ultimate.
All versions have a release date of October 22nd. Amazon is limiting pre-orders on Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and Windows 7 Professional Upgrade to 3 per customer, and the pre-order pricing expires on July 11th or once Microsoft sells a set number of pre-orders. Not that anybody knows exactly what that magic number is.
[via Engadget]













Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJash SayaniJun 26th 2009 9:57AM
Will Win 7 be delivered digitally by E-mailing the Product key, or will they ship the DVD Pack ?
JonJun 26th 2009 9:57AM
Its up to you .. From Microsoft you can buy download , Package , or both .. Amazon will send the package and you will get it on Oct 22nd .. not sure of everyone else
FargusJun 26th 2009 9:57AM
why cant we preorder ultimate?
JonJun 26th 2009 10:11AM
You can with no Discount ,its like $220 for upgrade .. Unlike Vista Ult isn't really worth it (I paid full price for Vista Ult.) .. With Pro you should about all set
ChrisJun 27th 2009 9:20AM
I thought that Vista was no hope,with it hogging up cpu and memory usage... But after SP2 came out it has gotten alot better.Vista has come along way, But XP was the same way it wasn't untill SP2 it didnt get as stable and as secure as it is untill then,the same way with Vista,It is in mainstram support and will be untill April 2012,I will wait for Windows 7 untill Microsoft releases a service pack for it before I upgrade.Vista just works.
rokubungiJun 28th 2009 10:45PM
just bought the win 7 pro upgrade but I'm not installing it until I have a hardware failure, I do a major upgrade or windows 7 sp1 comes out. because $99 is less than I'd have to pay for a good backup software and virtualization plus I won't have to mess with phone support like I will when I install vista (used up my activations early on because usb plug'n play wouldn't work.. ) right now (since SP2) it's been the most stable windows I've used.