From internal Best Buy memo, Best Buy to pre-sell Windows 7 upgrade version for $49.99. Microsoft says Windows 7 won't ship till mid-October
From Engaget "starting on June 26th, Best Buy will begin "pre-selling" the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade ($49.99) and the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade ($99.99). Have a look at the full letter below, and if you've come here for advice, here's the best we've got: don't buy a PC at Best Buy until June 26th."
If you buy a PC after June 26th, Best Buy will give you a free copy of the upgrade.
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awesome, moving thread to deal discussion is basically killing it. If someone is considering buying a computer at Best Buy tomorrow, they need this info now.
advocatus said:awesome, moving thread to deal discussion is basically killing it. If someone is considering buying a computer at Best Buy tomorrow, they need this info now.
I would hope that since they use fatwallet they would not buy computers from bestbuy
jamesbodden said:advocatus said:awesome, moving thread to deal discussion is basically killing it. If someone is considering buying a computer at Best Buy tomorrow, they need this info now.
I would hope that since they use fatwallet they would not buy computers from bestbuy
Well we have a broad viewership so I'm not going to cast aspersions about their shopping habits, however I do think the Windows 7 upgrade price is a good one and people should know... rather then having it delegated to the forum that most people don't read.
Windows 7 is essentially what Vista was supposed to be. I've got over 100 pilot users so far, and feedback has been very positive. It does seem to play well with older hardware and it's much more resource friendly, especially with video performance.
windows 7 is probably the first OS i'm going to actually go out and buy, i'm using the beta on all four (from netbooks to desktops) of my computers and its very nice and stable, i love it. $49.99 is an amazing price for it. definitely going to get at least one copy of it. thanks OP
advocatus said:if you've come here for advice, here's the best we've got: don't buy a PC at Best Buy until June 26th." I have better advice. Don't buy a PC at Best Buy before or after June 26.
QUESTION I have win 7 rc on a partition it dosen't impress me. For someone like me whats to gain when all I do is surf ,e-mail and buy stuff off fatwallet. I'm running XP MCE 2005 WITH MSIE 8 AND SP 3 on other partition With WIN 7RC whats to gain other the bell and whistles in the graphics. Thanks in advance
gaore said:Thanks. Could I upgrade to W7 from XP SP3 OEM?
That is my question as well, and I don't have an answer personally. Everything I heard from Leo Laporte and read on Engaget etc etc mentioned an upgrade from Vista. I am also running XP, and am looking forward to being able to buy an affordable upgrade to Windows 7. My gut feeling however is that XP users will get the shaft in one way or the other. The $49.99 pre-order price is a great first step for Microsoft, and hopefully they will continue to reward their consumers with the ability to upgrade from XP rather than punish them.
I hope all the technical magazines and people stuck with Vista will pressure MS to replace Vista with free copies of Windows 7. This would do a lot to erase the bad feelings about the Vista disaster and may have an effect of business customers switching to Win 7.
I'd go buy this, but im wondering if it is really better than a stripped down version of vista... Vista will all of the nonsense graphic enhancements and UAC turned off works...
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