Windows 7 pricing?

[Harrison]

The pricing structure of M$ OS hasn't been very logical since Vista. With XP it cost under half the full price for a copy of XP pro upgrade. But with Vista this wasn'y true, costing only about 20% less that the retail version. And with Windows 7 it is even worse.

Doesn't really inspire users to upgrade.

As I said about though. Upgrade copies are still the full version just like the full retail versions. They just ask for some proof of purchase of a previous version before allowing it to install. You can use an upgrade copy to install to a new/blank HD, just as with the full version. You don't need a previous version installed on the hdd.

[Demon Cleaner]

The price raised by 30£ at Amazon, I just checked

[Harrison]

Just in time for Christmas. Funny that!

[J T]

My work email address is a .ac.uk, fortunately I'm eligible for a student copy of win7 pro, about 30 quid to download, which is pretty sweet.

I just need to get another hard drive first, and then figure out how to juggle all the HDDs to have XP (for torrenting and stuff), and Vista (for now, in case Lady T decides she hates windows 7) too.

[Demon Cleaner]

I downloaded a Windows 7 Ultimate version with an activation code. Installed it yesterday, and it works like a charm. Didn't have to enter any serial, it updated itself via internet. I even could do Windows updates to it, it still stays active, and even shows the Windows genuine copy logo

[Shoonay]

Yeah, Vista/7 Ultimate has a great non-existing/easy to hack protection, lol
... not that XP had one more difficult - it requires you to type just one line in the HOSTS file, it's just that not many users (me included) knew how to do it a few years back.

[Phantom]

Put AROS instead (Icaros Desktop).