Windows 7

Post by **Eagle** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:07 pm

As of yesterday Windows 7 went on pre-order for release late October

Windows 7 Professional-E is Â£89.99 pre-order at PCworld, Currys, Dixons and Comet

Windows 7 Home Premium-E is Â£49.99 pre-order at the above places

Pre-order is upto the 9th August I think.

Thats not a bad price and I could probably get away with running the Home Premium version (not sure I would use the extra's Professoinal gives)

Thought's???

Post by **Nellyboy** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:40 pm

Hi Eagle, I am running legit Vista32 here at the moment. I might think about W7 next year, 64bit of course. All versions come with 64bit or 32bit I think.

Lets see ms iron out some of the early bugs first.

Post by **Rasputin** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:05 pm

Been running Windows 7 Beta and RC for about a half year maybe 4 months and it's great, really its what Vista. I am just gonna wait for the MSAD student thing to get it though.

Post by **Trig** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:13 pm

Got it on my work PC, home PC and dual boot on my work laptop..

Post by **Nellyboy** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:10 am

I registered Alice for student status so I should be able to get the cheaper student version too.

Post by **Hammer** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:30 am

Post by **Eagle** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:33 am

Yeah I've seen those specs Hammer which is why I said I'm not sure I'd need Professional just for those few extra's.

Unless there's other extra's they haven't listed

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:58 am

No browser lol MS fail.

Post by **Eagle** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:57 am

Nellyboy wrote: No browser lol MS fail.

Apparently its an EU directive or something

Post by **Hammer** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:41 am

Don't know if I should pre order the Home Premium @Â£49.99 some places have sold out and it's now Â£74.99, or wait until a few of my favourite sites have a working copy to try

I haven't even tried the RC yet so I don't know what the feel of the OS is like.
It would probably be an advantage on my new hardware.

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:28 pm

I did install the beta for a bit, seemed to me they were trying to make it windows for idiots. Big icons, press here, its all so easy etc. Nothing new and groundbreaking I noticed. But I am a mac user, prolly explains it.

Did I see that right? Does it mean no xp mode unless you get pro version? This should be explained in more detail.

Post by **Eagle** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:11 pm

An article here

<a href="http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16894" target="_blank">http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16894</a>

And here

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/01 ... de_review/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/01 ... review/</a>

Post by **Eagle** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:11 pm

Well after seeing some of the places go Sold Out I decided to order it.

I got Home Premium-E for 44.99 pre-order at PC World.

Card doesn't get charged until just before despatch either.

That's the first Windows I've purchased since I bought Win 98SE.

Post by **Hammer** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:05 pm

Pre purchased it myself from PC world.

My first one since windows 95