Best Buy Spills The Beans On Windows 7 - Cheap Upgrades?
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The news is spreading like wildfire that Best Buy is ready to bury Vista and offer the masses what appears to be cut rate pricing on Windows 7. According to several sources it appears that Best Buy is one of the first retailers that is gearing up for Windows 7 with some unbelievable pricing. But there is more. These discounted prices will be for a limited time only. The dates are believed to be from June 26th, 2009 until July 11, 2009.
Pricing will be Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade package for $49.99 and a Windows 7 Professional upgrade package for $99.99. If true this will be about a 50% discount from what Vista sold for. But again folks. Don’t get excited until Best Buy makes this official. You see, this information is being obtained from a leaked memo.
This is a copy of the entire memo that Engadget posted:
Hopefully this will be true. There has been much speculation that Microsoft would be lowering prices on Windows 7. This may be the confirmation we need to confirm that Microsoft has seen the light.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
5 Comments
Ede
June 5th, 2009
at 6:43pm
Yea preferably…… im hoping that this really does fall through because i planned on building anew. i have an old tower i built back in 04′ but due to new processing and speed standards it is obsolete. i mean come on its still using AGP for video cards, Lol
Tom Reestman
June 5th, 2009
at 8:05pm
This is pretty impressive, and a very smart for Microsoft. One question up in the air is about XP:
http://thesmallwave.com/2009/06/05/microsoft-does-good-windows-7-upgrade-program/
Ryan Farmer
June 6th, 2009
at 2:50am
Plan to kill off Vista:
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Step 1: Have paid media underlings stop reporting on Vista alltogether.
Step 2: Sit on Vista Service Pack 2 until nobody cares and everyone that does got it on BitTorrent already anyway.
Step 3: Pretend to draw up fake memo and proceed to leak it, memo will describe plan to let a few copies of Windows 7 go at half price, which is still 80 times the cost of a blank DVD, packaging, and shipping the damned thing.
Step 4: Blogs and paid media goes crazy about it, pre-orders go through the roof, self-fulfilling prophecy complete.
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At the end of the day, Windows 7 is still basically Windows Vista, it still has all the bugs, bloat, bad performance, hacks, security problems, and annoyance, and everyone will still buy it I guess.
Ron Schenone
June 6th, 2009
at 4:01am
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. It is appreciated.
Ron
Mitch
June 6th, 2009
at 11:34am
As you say, I’ll believe it when I see it. Vista just wasn’t the promised land; I hope Win 7 lives up to its hype.