Windows 7 Pricing Is Finally Here
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It seems that Microsoft is finally letting us in on their pricing scheme for the newest Windows operating system. On their Windows 7 blog they list the following pricing policy:
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
This means that Windows 7 Home Premium full retail product is $40.00 less than Windows Vista Home Premium today.
But there is more:
Finally, as a way of saying thank you to our loyal Windows customers, we are excited to introduce a special time limited offer! We will offer people in select markets the opportunity to pre-order Windows 7 at a more than 50% discount. In the US, this will mean you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium for USD $49.99 or Windows 7 Professional for USD $99.99. You can take advantage of this special offer online via select retail partners such as Best Buy or Amazon, or the online Microsoft Store (in participating markets).
This program begins tomorrow in the U.S., Canada and Japan. The offer ends July 11th in the U.S. and Canada and on July 5th for Japan or while supplies last. Customers in the UK, France and Germany, can pre-order their copy of Windows 7 starting July 15th and will run until August 14th (or supplies last) to ensure folks don’t miss out on this. Act fast if you want to be the first in line to get Windows 7 at this screaming deal! Note: The special low pre-order price will vary per country.
So there you have it. The official pricing from Redmond.
Opinions?
Comments welcome.
11 Comments
Esutacio "hsushoe" Leyva
June 25th, 2009
at 12:29pm
I hope that Windows 7 doesn’t suck like Vista did, especially the hope premium version because that one really bit the dust. I hope my ($200.00 + Tax) will be well worth buying for the home premium version. If not I am switching to Mac OS X!
Anon
June 25th, 2009
at 3:11pm
FAIL!
Buffet
June 25th, 2009
at 6:42pm
What’s your assessment sir? I’m still completely enamored with my XP. Are you going for the 7?
Ryan Farmer
June 25th, 2009
at 7:11pm
I may preorder it.
What I’m afraid of is that they’ll poison it with more DRM and copy control horsecrap and make it even more useless than Vista for digital video and music.
Remember Vista already artificially degrades Blu Ray movies unless you have an expensive HDMI monitor, and a expensive HDMI video card.
And they didn’t toss in the worst parts of Vista DRM til the last minute.
Could the Windows 7 RC be a psiren song to lull users into thinking Windows 7 won’t be more vicious than Vista?
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Ron Schenone
June 26th, 2009
at 4:17am
Hi Buffet,
Good question. I’ll be buying a new laptop in November for my wife and I’m sure it will come with 7. But as far as my other systems? Only my laptop will support 7 and if I do upgrade it will be to 7 Pro so I can take advantage of XP mode. BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, I am actually happy with Vista on my laptop. I have SP2 running and my system works just fine. I ‘m using 4 GB of RAM, 3 GB built in and 1GB using Ready Boost on a SD.
Have a good weekend
Diamonds
June 26th, 2009
at 9:56am
Probably not upgrading anytime soon, I’m still happy with my XP Pro. I just don’t want to be the guinea pig of another failure (assuming it is).
Buffet
June 26th, 2009
at 7:03pm
Thank you.
Ron Schenone
June 27th, 2009
at 5:06am
Hello Diamonds,
I believe that many people will stick with XP until they are forced to replace their older systems. As I mentioned, I still have two systems running XP and they will continue to do so until I replace the systems or they blow up. LOL
Buffet
June 28th, 2009
at 1:16am
As long as there is a market, black or otherwise, for a particular commodity, OS’s included, there will be will be someone to sell it to you.