Comments on: Windows 7 pre-order pandemonium

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:32:18 +0000

At 44.95 (Currys) I’ll probably sell at a small profit once “real” price is announced. Expect a lot of “bargains” on ebay

By: NG

NG — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:03:58 +0000

Amazing, looks like a clear case of Lemmings over the cliff, Im amazed that Microsoft actually has the gall to charge anything at all considering the mess it made of Vista.

i just hope it all works OK when you install it, i would have though the rule ‘Never install version 1 of Microosft naything’ would be well learnt by now, as if you diddnt with Vista

Good Luck!

By: george bush

george bush — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:48:23 +0000

You people have got more credit than sense, especially the idiot with 4 PCs and 2 laptops, why have you got so many computers (don’t answer its rhetorical) and why do you even need to upgrade at all. I bet it’s just so you can brag to your neighbours and colleagues.

By: Charles Marsh

Charles Marsh — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:52:31 +0000

Both Comet and DSG Retail Ltd – trading as Currys and as PC World – still have copies, although that probably says more about people’s confidence in those two companies. Staples have strangely added the new prices to the products’ descriptions but have not updated the price fields, so the items go into the basket at their original prices.

I agree with Kevin. If you didn’t get your copies at the promotional price, it would feel like a rip off. Had I not got my copy of Professional at £90, I would never have been able to buy it at £190. It would have hurt too much, feeling I was being ripped off to the tune of £100. I’m slowly transitioning to Linux as host OS anyway. I’ve been using mostly cross-platform software for a while now: Firefox, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, TrueCrypt, etc. I would have just stuck with XP for the occasional, unavoidable Windows use. Were I to have gone mad in the future and wanted to play a DirectX 11 game, I think I would have looked for a cracked version of Vista or 7. (I wouldn’t use untrusted software for ‘real’ computing.)

In offering a promotional price, Microsoft were damned either way. I’m sure there must have been people who tried to acquire as many copies as they could, with a view to reselling them later. How many vendors where there? Some have been removed from Microsoft’s pre-order web page. About nine, if we count Currys and PC World as one? I wonder if Ray will get all six copies he ordered. The other businesses shouldn’t be able to share data to limit multiple ordering. That’s nine times six times as many people as you could get to help you. With a number of willing relatives, it might have been possible to order several hundred copies. Microsoft had to limit the number.

By: Mike Potter

Mike Potter — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:09:57 +0000

Concur with Rob looks like all the £49.99 copies have gone or are they trying to make quick buck or two.

By: Kevin Tillyer

Kevin Tillyer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:12:29 +0000

What kind of ‘rip-off’ tactic are these people perpetrating on us. Alright, I know it was a damn good price to start with, but who is going to defend them in the face of this blatant exploitation. There has been a huge amount of promotion about the heavily discounted pre-order prices for this software and now just one day in to the offer that price has gone up 50%. Never seen the like of it.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:07:27 +0000

Microsoft Store price for Home Premium E is now £79.99, Amazon price £74.97. Looks like the £49.99 copies are all gone.

By: Ray Penn

Ray Penn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:41:47 +0000

I tried to order from Amazon just before lunchtime today (16th) and was only able to sign up for an alert.

Went to PCWorld and Currys and ordered 3 HP from PCW and 2HP 1Pro from Currys.

£45 for HP and £90 for Pro.

If the hype on savings is anything to go by, I’ve just save a huge amount of money. I just wish we didn’t have 4 PCs and 2 laptops in the house.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:49:02 +0000

I got an email alert from the Windows 7 Team at 10:55, I went straight to Amazon and ordered the Pro version and having thought about it, went back 10 mins later and ordered a copy of the Home Premium version too. Good price and no hassle plus having already got an account at Amazon I didn’t have to fiddle around with credit card details etc but “one-click” ordering was not available.

Although a promise that they are not likely to have to deliver on given the deep price discount on the UK retail price, Amazon also promise that if the prices drops by the October shipping date, they will charge you the lower price.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:54:46 +0000

Yes it’s back available at Amazon and oddly Comet are selling Home Premium E at almost the same price.
Anyone know of a source for the N version apart from Microsoft who are hors de combat atm