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Cheap UK Microsoft Windows 7 OS Pre-Orders Begin

By: MarkJ - 15 July, 2009 (7:29 AM) - Score: 5697 - Special Offers

Microsoft's next major computer operating system, Windows 7 - a follow-up to the somewhat shaky Windows Vista, is temporarily being offered in the UK for half price to pre-order customers (release date – 22nd October). Granted, this isn't our traditional ISP news, but we do think that it deserves a mention.

Here's the deal
Many of you offered feedback that helped us make Windows 7 work the way you want. We think we found the perfect way to thank you—a chance to be one of the first (without having to wait in line) to get Windows 7 at a special low price.

You can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium E for £49.99** [usually £149.99] or Windows 7 Professional E for £99.99** [usually £219.99]. The offer is available through participating retailers. Each retailer will tell you how to get your copy when Windows 7 is released.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx

Compare Product Versions:
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_skus_compare.asp

The offer will end on August 9th 2009 or when Microsoft's "limited" quantities run out, though it's worth pointing out that - due to a political conflict - the UK/EU version of Windows 7 will annoying not come with the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) website browser pre-installed (make sure you have a browser - Opera, Firefox, IE8 itself, Safari or Chrome - ready to install when you get it).

Having said that, and based on our own Beta and Release Candidate testing of Windows 7 over the past 6 months, Microsoft's latest operating system looks to be a much better and faster performer than Windows Vista. I haven’t said anything like that since the release of Windows 2000 all those years back, which was a good OS.

Most consumers will get Windows 7 with their next PC upgrade, but for those of you who like to tweak and modify your existing kit then this offer looks like quite a good deal. On the other hand you could just get Linux cool

or a MAC if you can afford one.

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MarkJ
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 8:59 AM
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Corrected original title where I put "Half Price", when in fact the reduction is a lot less than that.. especially from Amazon UK.

Greg
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 9:37 AM
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On the other hand you could just get Linux or a MAC if you can afford one.

MAC? Is that a "Media Access Control" or the more ISP specific "Migration Authorization Code" ... ?

Meanwhile ... Windows 7 Ultimate doesn't appear to be part of this particular offer. Doesn't really matter anyway, as I be
getting the OEM version of W7 Ultimate, which should be available for considerably less than the standard retail price.

MarkJ
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 9:55 AM
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Those two are technically M.A.C but yeah I hate all the different uses of MAC :) .

Agrajag
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 1:59 PM
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It's a shame they wont keep the prices low.

It's a little ridiculous when the operating system costs almost as much as the hardware it's running on.

MarkJ
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 2:26 PM
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Yeah the pre-order prices look a lot more like what I'd be willing to pay. I ended up buying 3 copies, but would have only got the 1 with the default pricing levels. So I actually ended up spending a little more.

Absent
Posted: 15 July, 2009 - 7:31 PM
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I hope MS keep up their third sector pricing with Win7. I work for a charity and MS currently do Vista Business upgrades for £7+vat and since we work off cheap laptops I'll be looking at upgrading most to Win7 since my own work machine runs far better on Win7 RC than it did off Vista. We've saved a fortune in the past, including full Win2008 Small Business Server copies for £43+vat, and these are ones sent direct from Microsoft, no dodgy dealings despite the cheap price.

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