windows 7 pre order

[watercooled]

So now you have enough clubcard points to buy a Mars bar

[Barrichello]

So now you have enough clubcard points to buy a Mars bar

a mars bar? Pack of 5 at least

[NightOwl]

Lots of stores selling out of the initial price quota now it seems, so i just surrendered in the end and placed my order at Tesco for my first ever purchased Microsoft OS (glad i skipped Vista now - was close to buying)

Got....

1 x Windows 7 pro for me £89.97
1 x Windows 7 home for the wife £49.97

This includes free delivery and gives double clubcard points (139)

Blimey, I think you're right about stores selling out already! I got my Win 7 Pro pre-order in at Amazon on the first day, at the same price as you paid above.... I guess they must have run out of these special price products now because the pre-order price now is a whopping £179.97! That's probably going to be their regular price from now on, with an 18% discount. *Ouch!!*

I'm very glad I didn't hang about, I've saved a fair bit there!

[Jasp]

Ebuyer are again showing stock, home premium is £50 and they have 480 copies, prof is £90 and they are showing 700 copies.

[undergroove]

It works for me - just don't use the explorer replacement mode and all is fine. You can still invoke it via dblclick on the desktop or from the taskbar, just not Win + E.

Fully took the plunge on my main machine after reading your post, what with you saying Opus is fine and dropping nuggets on the pre-order, it would be rude not to now.

Just tried 9.1.3.0 and it looks like they've resolved that issue you mention. Doesn't mention Explorer replacement mode like it used to during installation and launches OK from Win+E as well now as far as I can tell.... had one niggle with Windows Explorer where it won't let me rename a particular file in a particular location and crashes every time (not path depth related), whereas Opus does it fine. Nice to have it back.

Looking forward to final release now.

[Sputnik]

I want to order on Pre-order but, I'm unsure which to get seems it is only home premium E or Professional available. According to Microsoft's product comparison the only one to offer multi language is Ultimate ??

[Technogeek]

PC world still offering at £44.99

[iftiq]

Foolish question- I preorded mine from MicroAnvika, but I can't remember it offering me the choice between 32 and 64bit versions.... was the pre-order only for the 32 bit version?

[undergroove]

Foolish question- I preorded mine from MicroAnvika, but I can't remember it offering me the choice between 32 and 64bit versions.... was the pre-order only for the 32 bit version?

Both in the box now, based on customer feedback from the Vista release apparently!

[iftiq]

woohoo!

[Tagster]

Staples are still doing them cheapish as well. HP @ £49.98 and Pro @ £99.97 (bit steep).
Must say I've never bought Windows as a retail version before, so this makes a nice change

[Sputnik]

After looking at the comparison of versions on the Microsoft site, Am I correct to think that only Ultimate will allow you to use more than one language?

[Singh400]

Well I just cancelled my pre-order. Bought a TechNet Sub last night with 25% off

After looking at the comparison of versions on the Microsoft site, Am I correct to think that only Ultimate will allow you to use more than one language?

Yeah, that is correct.

[Grey M@a]

Well I just cancelled my pre-order. Bought a TechNet Sub last night with 25% off

Yeah, that is correct.

How do you get the 25% off Sigh? Might be worth me doing it to as there are three laptops and 3 pc's in the house and I only pre ordered Win 7 for two of them

[Singh400]

How do you get the 25% off Sigh? Might be worth me doing it to as there are three laptops and 3 pc's in the house and I only pre ordered Win 7 for two of them

Use the code TMSAM10, there are others I posted here.

[Grey M@a]

Cheers man very tempting at £175 for all the software under the sun