Windows 7 to retail in UK for £65?

Obviously, Microsoft has been closely following PC Pro's "rip off Britain" campaign(!)

By Stiggy on 19 Aug 2009

Why get Windows Professional?

I'd been tempted, but now I realise XP Mode will not work on my CPU, and the restrictions on Backup (which I'm using in the RC) are not too great, don't see there's anything to remotely justify the almost £90 higher price.

By Cantabrian on 19 Aug 2009

Indefinite

I thought the definition of "indefinite" in terms of a price was essentially permanent with no specific intention of changing. So how have you interpreted it as something that may shoot up? It could as easily go down but the word suggests there are no plans to change it.

@Cantabrian - take a look at VirtualBox instead.

By halsteadk on 19 Aug 2009

Don't hold your breath!

I just can't see it happening. Or, maybe, just maybe, MS are trying to make it up to us for the farce of the non-existent 'E' edition. Oh look - another flying pink thing that oinks

By adamgashead on 19 Aug 2009

no I think indefinite means not definite in general. If something is not definite it is open to change so I think that they interpreted it right.

By TimoGunt on 19 Aug 2009

just buy it

forget the "my processor doesn't support xp mode" rubbish - this OS is a major step forward. there are so many other reasons to upgrade than wanting to run xp legacy software.

By sihaz2 on 19 Aug 2009

Still costs too much

Sorry but when you have 3 laptops and a desktop running on a small home network even £65 is still too much to pay for the little to no benefit it will produce in terms of workability of the machines, I have however purchased the upgrade disk for my new laptop and would be willing to pay similar price to upgrade the other machines (£27).

Still feel that MS are greedy and would sell more if the price was lower. After all we are talking about an OS here something that is inherently required to translate trhe machine code to make them usable.

By bodeia on 20 Aug 2009

Virtual XP

If you have your own copy of XP you can install it under any one of many free Virtual PC options available, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC. Win7 Pro isn't the only option.

By cheysuli on 20 Aug 2009

Netbook option = Basic?

I have a Dell mini 9 with an XP UMPC license. I'm running W7RC Ultimate. Is there pricing for Home Basic or whatever for netbooks?

By DrMatt on 20 Aug 2009

Virtual XP

@cheysuli. You need Win7 Pro or Ultimate to use VirtualPC at all.

VirtualBox will work on other versions however, and it will run a 32-bit guest OS with out CPU virtualisation extensions.

By halsteadk on 21 Aug 2009