Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program & Windows 7 Pricing - Bring on GA!

[anon]

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So here's the low-down on pricing for Windows 7. The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99

And the estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99

Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program & Windows 7 Pricing ? Bring on GA! - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog

[slikrapid]

a bit clearer (even though there is still the 'upgrade' nonsense, allowing for a higher full version price), unlike the vista package mess and naturally still to pricey

btw did you check the Win 7 p2p market value

[Dynamic]

Of the people using it right now how does it compare to lets say XP and or Vista?

[cheatos]

Of the people using it right now how does it compare to lets say XP and or Vista?

many of my friends says its very very fast and stable ..,

and thats a bit too much price ..

[coolio256]

I thought an upgrade version from XP to 7 should be for free !?

[splicer]

Hehe, I formatted my 8 year old system's HDD, which used to have XP on it, and installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it; fuck M$ and 7... open source feels good. I was thinking about getting 7, but my mind has been hijacked by Ubuntu since I installed it on my laptop.

[slikrapid]

I thought an upgrade version from XP to 7 should be for free !?

afaik no previous win upgrade was free - guess we'll have to wait until linux really takes over on a larger scale - now that could even force them to go with a free win (it surely would prove the power of free software )

anyways, i probably won't be getting it until the first SP

[anon]

(it surely would prove the power of free software )

Bill Gates has already publicly stated Linux is their biggest competitor (as I posted yesterday, if I'm not mistaken). I can even respect him for saying that

Will try 7 myself anyway, but again, once eXPer1ence mods it. His custom ISOs are awesome and bloat-free.