Windows 7 home premium price?

[Theguy]

they changed the upgrade system in vista. you had to have XP installed for it to upgrade.. i would imagen its the same for windows 7 too..
iam sure you could use that, install windows 7 with default key and then install it again with your own to get round that issue though..

 

[hohum]

What Theguy said. The upgrade method for XP could be easily exploited with pirated copies of old Windows versions, so it was changed for Vista/7.

 

[crazybones]

What Theguy said. The upgrade method for XP could be easily exploited with pirated copies of old Windows versions, so it was changed for Vista/7.

Agreed. But I could never work out why Microsoft having changed the upgrade process then left in the ability to install Vista from an upgrade disk with effectively a clean install by reinstalling over itself! Crazy.....

 

[pirate]

If you're a US student and ACM.org member you can get it for $19.
http://www.overclock.net/online-deals/565690-msdn-aa-access-19-8x-win7.html

 

[C64]

Windows 7 is going through two pre-order phases.
The first one is now long gone.
It enabled you to get Home Premium for £50 and Professional for £100.

The second phase of pre-order (which we are currently in) only seems to give offers on Home Premium.
Right now you can secure Home Premium for anything between £65 - £85.

Once Windows 7 is actually released in October, prices will revert to the full retail, which will be £150 for the full retail version of Home Premium.

Before you get all excited about "over priced" Microsoft software.
Look at it this way.
An OS will last for approx. 3 years.
Full retail allows you to transfer the OS between all of the machines you own in those 3 years.
So £50 a year or less than £1 a week to use Windows 7 - now that is an absolute bargain.
And that is with the OS at £150!

I think I read somewhere they are not putting the prices up until jan 2010 if at all.
Upon release it will be around £65-£80 and probably stay there.