News - UK Windows 7 pre-orders begin tomorrow, will you be placing an order?

[forsaken991]

Think I'll pre-order the home premium edition

[SiM]

D'oh, no upgrade version. So what should I do with Vista Ultimate that I bought ~9 months ago

[TooNice]

Most likely. Will probably wait till September to do so though (just to have more time to play with RC - so far I've not had much time to play with my desktop).

[grizzla]

at £50 it is well worth the punt. Would have bought two copies but as the second copy will be for the gf's laptop which i have yet to buy i can benefit from the upgrade programme that is also running at the moment

[pauldarkside]

D'oh, no upgrade version. So what should I do with Vista Ultimate that I bought ~9 months ago

What about buying Home Premium at £49.99 and then the Windows 7 equivalent of Windows Anytime Upgrade? Vista HP to Vista Ultimate works out at £112.03 (plus taxes, etc) and I don't see why 7's pricing should be any higher. That's a fair bit cheaper than the Vista Ultimate retail was - my OEM disc was just short of a hundred on release.

[Barrichello]

I personally am not impressed that Microsoft has not yet made the Ultimate version availiable for pre-order. Having purchased Vista Ultimate a while back for a premium price I would of thought that Microsoft would of liked to give a bit of an incentive to upgrade. I have run the upgrade advisor and it rather cheekily says that as I have Vista Ultimate, I should upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate! Not for £200 I won't!

hmmm if i had Vista Ultimate don't think i would be looking to upgrade to Windows 7 so fast? Its only been out what a couple of years? Vista must really be bad to warrant a upgrade so soon?

I will def get Windows 7 (loving the RC) going from XP i cant decide if to go for these pre-order versions, or wait and get the ultimate version. Will have to research.

[SiM]

What about buying Home Premium at £49.99 and then the Windows 7 equivalent of Windows Anytime Upgrade? Vista HP to Vista Ultimate works out at £112.03 (plus taxes, etc) and I don't see why 7's pricing should be any higher. That's a fair bit cheaper than the Vista Ultimate retail was - my OEM disc was just short of a hundred on release.

I think it would be easier and cheaper to get an upgrade version from the US..

[lodore]

Why would someone pay for vista ultimate in the first place. but coughing up for windows 7 as soon as it comes out as well is just crazy.
I paid £80 for my vista Home premium OEM when i got this computer. While i like some improvements with windows 7 such as the superbar,trigger services etc i have better things to spend my money on.
no wonder windows is such high market share if everyone just coughs up the money every time a new version of windows comes out with a few new features.

the file system is old,it still uses the registy which means it will get slower after time and will need a reinstall to sort it out. plus it stil uses around 10gb without any programs installed. i dont care how cheap hard drive space is some people have older computers with smaller harddrives.


ive got an idea.
everyone at hexus dont buy windows 7 and make sure friends and family dont buy it eiether.
microsoft should have to try alot harder to get our cash.

if windows 7 sells well microsoft will think they have done a good job and there OS is good. if you dont buy it you will force them to make it better.

[Nelsaidi]

I'll buy definetley getting HP 64bit in the next few days.

[watercooled]

So just to confirm, it does come with 64 bit in the box right?

[Jasp]

Yer, you get the 32bit & 64bit DVDs with home premium and above.

[this_is_gav]

plus it stil uses around 10gb without any programs installed. i dont care how cheap hard drive space is some people have older computers with smaller harddrives.

Like the 8gb Acer Aspire One, which Windows 7 installs fine on?

For the record, I'm still debating whether or not to get 7 yet. On one hand I'm sure at some point I'll be getting it at home and at work, and it would be nice to get it while it's cheap... but on the other hand Vista is fine, 7 doesn't really add much to high end systems and it might just be possible that as impressive as 7 is (especially on older systems), I might just pass this one by.

Fairly sure I'll get the itch (let's face it, that's what technology relies on), but I doubt it will be within the next few days.

[TAKTAK]

The the 8gb Acer Aspire One, which Windows 7 installs fine on?

The 4GB eeePC, which 7 installs fine* on



*installs fine but you have no room for drivers or programs...

[Andi-C]

I will be buying windows 7 as its very good & at these prices seems silly not to !

But I think MS should have done better with Vista & made window 7 a free upgrade due to the short length between OS's...MS tills "chang ching" soon

[this_is_gav]

The 4GB eeePC, which 7 installs fine* on



*installs fine but you have no room for drivers or programs...

I never even bothered trying it on an EeePC! I thought I was being optimistic with the Aspire One! Flipping heck.

Wonder what would happen if I tried to install, say, Office on the Aspire One which had no space left... clearly 7 can work with little space, so how would it deal with that... hmm, one for the summer holidays perhaps.

I will be buying windows 7 as its very good & at these prices seems silly not to !

But I think MS should have done better with Vista & made window 7 a free upgrade due to the short length between OS's...MS tills "chang ching" soon

These sort of comments annoy me, and are clearly from people who's first real venture into Windows-based PCs came during the XP reign.

1995: Win 95 (several versions over the next couple of years)
1998: Win 98
1999: Win 98 SE
2000: Win ME
2000: Win 2000
2001: Win XP

It's just the gap between XP and Vista that makes people think the OSes are too frequent now. It's not like you need to upgrade. If your mindset it "oh no, not another OS so soon", then just don't buy it. It's not like you're going to miss out. The internet will still work.

[Andi-C]

I never even bothered trying it on an EeePC! I thought I was being optimistic with the Aspire One! Flipping heck.

Wonder what would happen if I tried to install, say, Office on the Aspire One which had no space left... clearly 7 can work with little space, so how would it deal with that... hmm, one for the summer holidays perhaps.


These sort of comments annoy me, and are clearly from people who's first real venture into Windows-based PCs came during the XP reign.

1995: Win 95 (several versions over the next couple of years)
1998: Win 98
1999: Win 98 SE
2000: Win ME
2000: Win 2000
2001: Win XP

It's just the gap between XP and Vista that makes people think the OSes are too frequent now. It's not like you need to upgrade. If your mindset it "oh no, not another OS so soon", then just don't buy it. It's not like you're going to miss out. The internet will still work.

Thanks for the advice but win 7 is still going to be bought & for the record used Win 98 first not XP