Windows 7 pre-order

[eps]

It seems like the pre-order price of this will be heavily discounted... Until the 9th of August..

Seeing as all the PCs I've currently got are on XP Pro, will it be worth upgrading to Windows 7 Pro? For £90. Or worth waiting
to see if it's as bad as Vista??

[mybrainhurts]

Every time I upgrade, everything goes tits up...

Never again...

[Man-At-Arms]

BBC News said:

Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.

just shows how many people want to ditch Shista Vista at the first available oppurtunity
it's not even out till October !

and even then, without a bloody web browser

[Carfiend]

Mmmmm yes Mr Ballmer I will have some more of your snakeoil the last batch was just lovely.

[Pushrod-Power]

eps said:

It seems like the pre-order price of this will be heavily discounted... Until the 9th of August..

Seeing as all the PCs I've currently got are on XP Pro, will it be worth upgrading to Windows 7 Pro? For £90. Or worth waiting
to see if it's as bad as Vista??

I have been using it since the Beta and now the RC both 32&64 bit versions and you wont be disappointed,i love it best thing M/S have rolled out for some time never bothered with Vista to be honest

[onlynik]

Yep, really good, I really like it.

I'll wait for the Action Pack download though.

[Scraggles]

win 7 Premium RRP £150 - get it for £50
win 7 Pro RRP £220 - get it for £100

got the beta installed on the new pc, thinking about getting one soon for it

[bga]

I'm pretty impressed with Windows 7, builds on the good stuff from Vista but a bit more of a consistent package. Win7 also seems a bit more Mac like in that stuff just works easily imo.

[Simon Says]

I have the 32 bit 7 RC on a IBM T41 lappy and it flies,recognised everything wireless card chipset,sound,graphics the lot no visits to IBM website once,no aero interface though who cares,i am currently dual booting in case i had problems with 7 but i have not at use the XP since install i will purchase the 64bit 7 ultimate for my desktop really pleased.

Edited by Simon Says on Wednesday 15th July 21:46

[LordGrover]

Scraggles said:

win 7 Premium RRP £150 - get it for £50
win 7 Pro RRP £220 - get it for £100

got the beta installed on the new pc, thinking about getting one soon for it

Beta expires v soon. Will start shutting down every couple of hours. Best d/l RC asap. It's very good - way better than Pista.

[Simon Says]

LordGrover said:

Scraggles said:

win 7 Premium RRP £150 - get it for £50
win 7 Pro RRP £220 - get it for £100

got the beta installed on the new pc, thinking about getting one soon for it

Beta expires v soon. Will start shutting down every couple of hours. Best d/l RC asap. It's very good - way better than Pista.

It already does this on one of my work Dell machines,thats the Beta though not the RC version and MS gave me plenty warning so i am back on XP for the moment.

[netherfield]

If I have read things right,there is no upgrade path from either Vista or XP it has to be a clean installation,if you have the hard disk space/partitions available a dual boot set up maybe worthwhile.

[Mojooo]

W7 is very very similar to Vista in terms of how it looks and works, infact it is almost identical - it is more quicker and reliable though.

Jumping from XP to Vista was a big jump for many so jumping from XP to W7 will be huge, especially if they are critical machines.

Vista and W7 are miles better than XP IMO

[Mojooo]

Man-At-Arms said:

BBC News said:

Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.

just shows how many people want to ditch Shista Vista at the first available oppurtunity
it's not even out till October !

and even then, without a bloody web browser

i think it might be more down to relauctance and the bad press vista initally got due to being so different to XP.

Now people are used to vista it doesn;t surprise me if the takeup rate for W7 is much quicker

[eps]

although I do like the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" adage... Plus I'm not sure the main application I use runs on Vista or Win7...

[judas]

Just bought a new Sony netbook that came with Vista - then found out I get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released

Having said that, I'm also considering dropping down to XP Pro for better performance. Anyone care to comment on how XP/Win 7 stack up performance wise on the same hardware?

[strudel]

From limited experience, 7 seems faster than vista to me.

[Simon Says]

netherfield said:

If I have read things right,there is no upgrade path from either Vista or XP it has to be a clean installation,if you have the hard disk space/partitions available a dual boot set up maybe worthwhile.

Yes and that includes Beta to Rc versions also(fresh install)so dual booting is an option.

[HRG.]

Mojooo said:

W7 is very very similar to Vista in terms of how it looks and works, infact it is almost identical - it is more quicker and reliable though.

Jumping from XP to Vista was a big jump for many so jumping from XP to W7 will be huge, especially if they are critical machines.

Vista and W7 are miles better than XP IMO

Vista sucks donkey dick, can't wait to get rid of it. It's ME on an NT kernel.

[theboyfold]

You mean you can pay for Windows?!

I'm actually tempted as I have 2 Vista machines running Home Premium that I can't stand but without having a play with the Windows 7 beta I'm not sure I'm willing to pay.

Can I still get the beta from anywhere?