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Will You Buy Windows 7???
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Soldato
Really dont need to worry, will be getting it early from ms anyway thanks to a subscription B-)
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Pre ordered the professional edition for £89.99 delivered.
Soldato
indeed. but if you wait until Jan/Feb ebay will be pretty empty of 'cheap' excess pre order noobs like myself. The price will go up, remember lots of people will wait and see what happens with win7, might not make much but i bet selling 6 copies of HP will cover the £90 i paid for my copy of Pro.
But people do buy the OS. Otherwise stores wouldn't stock it.
However, I would expect most slaes to be from system builders/enthusiaists who would buy OEM versions.
Also, if academic versions come out like they did with Vista then you'd be able to get retail copies for massive discounts. For example, students can get Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade for £56 and Windows Vista Business upgrade for £40.
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God, it's still available at £45 and even if it wasn't £70 is still a bargin.
Looking to order now, for most Home/home network usage, Home Premium should be more than enough really shouldn't it? Don't do anything out of the ordinary, and as long as Home Premium allows you to so the usual home network/file sharing shabbang, I can't see it being an issue!
Just thought I'd check first
Just thought I'd check first
I agree with the majority on here that being greedy and pre-ordering loads to sell for profit on ebay is not likely to work out. Many others will have the same idea driving the price down. Other factors as well make it a bit of a gamble. I'm not putting this effort down because I was unable to get copies. I was in more than early enough to bag however many I wanted, but I just left it at 2 copies of Pro, one from one store and one from another as a back up. If both are successful then I'm sure I can sell 1 x pro copy back for a very small profit. If 1 falls through then I have the 1 copy as backup left for myself. If both fall through - I'll be a bit miffed but life goes on. No biggie. Remember what happened with the technet offer though? Perhaps might have fallen under the Microsoft radar if people weren't so greedy with generating 10 keys each for every product. Similar story here. I do wonder how many people have ordered many many copies. I'm not sure etailers had time to impose an actual physical limit per person/credit card/address ?
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I hear you look at dodgey stuff on the net for which Ultimate is required. Can someone confirm?
Soldato
can't get over the fact people keep moaning that it's sold out, use ya nogin!
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well i just found out ive been charged already for the pre order the moneys gone so much for taking when then send its rather crap as am now skint lol
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Look on the bright side, now you know you will get it.
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Could not resist pre-ordering a copy for £42.74
Can you dual boot with 64bit and 32bit installs on 1 PC with the same key?
Can you dual boot with 64bit and 32bit installs on 1 PC with the same key?
Thats interesting. Effectively you have 2 installations of windows on 2 identical machines (except that its on the same machine).
Thinking about it, I don't think the 2nd copy would activate.