Poll: Which version of Windows 7 do you plan to purchase?

What flavour of 7 are you going to get?

  • Home Premium

    Votes: 75 51.4%

  • Business

    Votes: 8 5.5%

  • Enterprise

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Ultimate

    Votes: 51 34.9%

  • Starter bundled with a netbook

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Not going to upgrade to 7

    Votes: 10 6.8%
  • Total voters
    146
Burnsy2023 said:
They don't get the hardware subsidy that Apple get though do they.
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So? There's plenty of other software companies out there that sell multiple licenses at a discount.

If they want people to upgrade then they need to offer them an incentive. There's no extra transportation/manufacturing costs so doing a family license makes sense.
 
Home Premium for me I think. Spent the extra to get Vista Ultimate and I don't think I've ever used any of the extra features apart from the extra sounds themes that came as an "Ultimate Extra" and the odd temporary Dreamscence background.

Might consider going for Pro if the price is close to Home Prem, but unlikely.
 
Tunney said:
So? There's plenty of other software companies out there that sell multiple licenses at a discount.
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Yes, but none that cost as much or as complex as Windows.

Tunney said:
If they want people to upgrade then they need to offer them an incentive. There's no extra transportation/manufacturing costs so doing a family license makes sense.
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They don't need to. Their retail sale are a miority compared to OEM sales.
 
Wont be upgrading for a while, don't see the point really there is no massive improvement over Vista - my system is currently working just fine so why mess with it?!
 
Home Premium

This thing about not having IE built into all versions sold in europe. So you buy and install windows, then how do you actually obtain a browser? Are they all going to ship with a note that you should download and save a browser before installing?

EDIT: Doesn't matter. Just seen the other thread on this
 
Home Premium, but only if the upgrade from Vista Home Premium is a suitably low price.

The Apple situation is completely different. They're all about you buying the hardware. Hell, OS X has no kind of serial or copy protection on it, making the "Family Pack" purely an honour-system purchase.
 
Home Premium as always.

Apart from Remote Desktop, I don't see any other means to buy Ultimate tbh. And I bet many of the "I have Ultimate braggers" on here in months to come will have got their hands on it through other means. ;)
 
Ultimate

Have Vista Ultimate and it's been rock solid with or without SP's, and from what i gather you get 2 bit flavours same as vista

And after testing W7 i will follow suit and go with ultimate
 
Those were two seperate entities really. I wasn't implying otherwise, merely asking, then making a statement that Ultimate seems unescesary.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
They don't need to. Their retail sale are a miority compared to OEM sales.
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Then they won't be losing much money by doing a discounted family-license. It seems like a good way to 'mop up' all the old XP machines kicking around at home. These are machines people wouldn't normally bother shelling out for a new OS for.
 
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