Windows 7 Half Price Offer - Comments Page 1

Nice, thanks for the heads up, Bob! I might look into Windows 7. Vista is pretty new itself, though -- is there a huge benefit to upgrading from it? Would you recommend it?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Have a look here: http://askbobrankin.com/windows_7_is_coming.html

i have used the windows update advisor. it says i need to update a particular driver and it gives me a website to go to texas instruments. however after attempting that site not finding that driver i did a search. it is actually a dell driver used by other computer makers. i posted in the microsoft win 7 forum and was told to get it oem. the problem is the driver is current for vista and oem will not offer an update for a current driver. fortunately for me i bought the $49 win 7 home premium upgrade due out october 22 so my need for the new driver is not critical but what if win 7 were coming out next week. than what.

If I purchase the Windows 7 upgrade and use it on a new harddrive will it work or will I have to purchase a full version of Windows 7 for a new HD?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure about that. Ideally it will prompt you for the license number of the old version.

Windows 7 "Half price" nice if you can get it ! ONLY if you live in America !!!!

..."upgrading" from XP to Win7 will require a clean install.

What installation media will be provided? Internet download? Disk? If disk, will it be an upgrade disk or full install disk? If upgrade disk, will various Windows functions like CHKDSK, etc work when it says to insert the install disk?

Certainly sounds like a good price, but if people will be limited as to what the install media can or cannot do, then what's the point if they have to eventually buy a full price disk?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Unless I'm mistaken, you'll be ordering the boxed version, with CD install media.

Thanks Bob,note that Microsoft has implied that those of us in Austalia will pay substantially more for Windows 7 than Americans.May be worth our while to import a copy from America.

I upgraded to Windows7 from Windows Vista beta about six months Nd moved to the RC (Release Candidate) version, the one that's being installed by manufaturers on new machines, about two months ago. The difference in performance was obvious. Windows 7 feels likes it's running twice as fast as Vista (I haven't measured it), but EVERY program I use from Office2007 to Corel Draw 12 to MovieMaker just opens and runs pretty much instantly.

I'm running on a Toshiba laptop with a COre 2 Duo Centrino1.83 Ghz processor and 3 G of RAM that is not rated particulary fast, and I couldn't be happier. I have a desktop with similar processing capability running Vista and the difference is obvious. Do upgrade to 7.

Why would M$ extend the same offer to people using XP AND Vista??? First, the economics. Vista was a complete and utter flop. They need to offer a discount to the suckers (me included) who acutally paid for that bloated, resource-hogging junk. My Vista box has sat unused (with that equally unusable Office 2007) for months.

OTOH, I've been happily using Windows 7 for 4 months. It runs on most anything - quickly AND reliably. Oh, and without nagging me every 5 minutes.

So why would M$ offer the SAME discount to XP users (of which I am one as well)? If they offer 1/2 off to XP users, they should upgrade Vista users for free.

Does anyone know what the license will be for these half price versions. I will need a 3 PC license. Thank you, jim

On end user (you and I) operating systems, the MS license is always for 1 machine. It is the other products such as Office that have 3 machine licenses