News - Buy Windows Vista, get a free 1TB Samsung hard-disk drive

[HEXUS]

How do you continue to sell Windows Vista when the Windows 7 beta is a free download? Here's one way.

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[sleepyhead]

Must...resist....urge....to...buy....

Actually its not alot of sense to buy 32bit Vista; well not to me anyhow. When I upgrade I do want to move to 64bit OS, whether it be Vista or W7. So far XP Pro does the job.

You can buy a 1TB Samsung drive elsewhere for relatively cheap price too.

[Salazaar]

I considered buying that, selling Vista and then buying a 64bit home premium oem but it doesn't look like I could shift a 32bit OEM, ebay's flooded with them!

[TAKTAK]

Well the key is valid for x64 too... you just need the x64 install media...

Which you can legally borrow off someone else to install it

Bish bash bosh, free HDD and 64bit OS

[aidanjt]

It's a bit early to be calling Windows 7 'stable'. It does have showstopper bugs. But here's an idea, instead of giving away what could probably be considered the minimum disk size for Windows these days, why don't they cut the price of the OS by the cost of the disk?..

[shaithis]

£140 for OEM seems expensive!

Pretty sure I paid under £100 for mine, which means your almost paying for the HDD anyway =S

[GheeTsar]

If it wasn't for Windows 7 looking so promising I would jump at this offer. I think I'll save my penies for 7 though - I'm betting it will be out before the end of the year.

[rabbid]

I think it would be beter the other way around... buy a 1TB drive and get free Vista!

[matty-hodgson]

£140 for OEM seems expensive!

Pretty sure I paid under £100 for mine, which means your almost paying for the HDD anyway =S

which version is that though?
was it Vista Ultimate?

[shaithis]

Sure was. Looking around it seems that prices have gone up though

Damn economy.

[scaryjim]

... why don't they cut the price of the OS by the cost of the disk?..

Because that would cut in Microsoft's recession-busting $4bn profits, and then what would all those poor Microsofrt executives and shareholders do?!?

[darkblueslider]

Well, thats one way to sell things in the current climate.

If it was 64bit i'd probably go for it.

[aidanjt]

Because that would cut in Microsoft's recession-busting $4bn profits, and then what would all those poor Microsofrt executives and shareholders do?!?

Yeah, can't have Microsoft slumming it with a few billion quarterly profits. In all seriousness though, a price cut could bolster sales, hence, profits.

[miniyazz]

Well, thats one way to sell things in the current climate.

If it was 64bit i'd probably go for it.

IIRC, you can get a free upgrade to 64-bit Vista through Microsoft (possibly plus shipping charges).

[scaryjim]

Yeah, can't have Microsoft slumming it with a few billion quarterly profits. In all seriousness though, a price cut could bolster sales, hence, profits.

I might have to send this (attributed, of course ) as my feedback on Windows 7...

[Salazaar]

IIRC, you can get a free upgrade to 64-bit Vista through Microsoft (possibly plus shipping charges).

Is that true of the OEM version though? (Which this is).