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Windows 7 now available for pre-order in the UK
Pre-orde pricing will be available until August 9th, or while supplies run out, whichever comes first. Of course, Microsoft isn't actually going to run out of pre-order licenses. It's software, after all. But the company has decided how many pre-orders to take, and hasn't bothered to tell the rest of us what that number is.
The BBC is reporting that Amazon UK sold more copies of Windows 7 in the first 8 hours that the operating system was up for pre-order than it sold of Windows Vista pre-orders in the 17 weeks it was available for pre-order. Whether that's entirely due to the positive buzz Windows 7 has been getting, the discount pricing, or some huge surge in the popularity of buying software from Amazon in the UK isn't entirely clear.
[via Engadget]
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Subscribe to commentskeevesJul 15th 2009 1:31PM
I am correct in thinking that the UK and European versions have been crippled so that they do not allow "upgrades", only complete fresh re-installations of the operating system? (for some stupid reason like IE not being on the Europe version)
keevesJul 15th 2009 1:30PM
Am I correct in thinking that the UK and European versions have been crippled so that they do not allow "upgrades", only complete fresh re-installations of the operating system? (for some stupid reason like IE not being on the Europe version)
YamikotaiJul 15th 2009 9:25PM
It would seem that way, but I would much prefer a clean install either way.