Windows 7 Official Prices Released
Microsoft has released the official prices of the next client operating system Windows 7 at its full retail for retail and update mode. A minimal reduction in the Home Premium edition can advertise that “Windows 7 is cheaper than Vista, but surely in the current economic situation would have expected a better effort from the company that it will cost $ 320 retail Ultimate edition.
The prices of the retail version of Windows 7 have been established at 200, 300 and $ 320 respectively for the Home Premium editions, Professional and Ultimate. To upgrade from XP or Vista prices are 120, 200 and $ 260 for the three versions above, but you know that this method will not be available in Europe on the topic of Internet Explorer. For “rich Europeans, particularly in retail.
The company says that it has lowered its price by 8 percent compared to Vista by the current economic situation, but we just revised the prices of discount prices in the Home Premium version. The other two are the same price as at the launch of Vista.
In update mode offers a pre-launch bookings until July 11 with a rebate, this time, substantial, 50 per cent. An offer should be extended to Europe and the longest, for the reasons referred to above involving the removal of the web browser.
Furthermore starts as announced, the program to upgrade to Windows 7, free of charge or a minimum price, for customers who buy a computer from June 26 with Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate. The goal, as in the past, is to prevent consumers delay the purchase of equipment until the official launch of Windows 7.
Confirmed for launch October 22 with editions in English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Portuguese and Korean. On October 31 it would extend to many other languages.
For the RTM versions that manufacturers pre-installed on new computers, the pricing is comparable to the retail versions (of course cheaper), ie identical to the price of Vista with the discount (minimum) in the Home Premium version . The manufacturers have complained that Microsoft’s pricing policy because it expected that lower prices encourage the sale of equipment.
We do not know what you think of you, but we believe that Microsoft should have been “stretched” significantly more in the price of the system, taking into account the current crisis and the fiasco of Vista. Difficult to assess whether the price of the software is compared to the competition here and Microsoft has everything to lose regardless of the quality of the operating system.
Especially compared to Linux distributions as Ubuntu, openSUSE, or Fedora for free download and use, and with Snow Leopard, cheaper than 7, with updates and a $ 30 license package very attractive family. Certainly the case of Mac OS X is peculiar because it forces Apple to include it in their machines, more expensive in general that the Windows PC, which makes the whole.
Still, we do not believe that consumers see any attraction in paying $ 320 for the retail Ultimate edition of Windows 7, which will, as usual, that pirated copies will flood the network and home computers. And Microsoft is going wrong with this situation, to maintain a monopoly by selling licenses in bulk to businesses and governments (which are paid), as well as manufacturers to pre-install Windows on a large scale in new equipment.
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