Windows 7 not the end of XP/Vista

It is priced too high

 

I think people will "pay what it cost" because as the article says "XP cannot live forever". I personally am looking forward to upgrading to windows 7 professional when it is launched, after using the RC I cannot wait to use the final version.

As long as your processor supports virtualization windows XP mode is actually quite nice to use, and should help all of the XP users who refuse to move on to do so.

 

I hope the update from Vista Ultimate too Win7 will be a relatively cheap one. Using the RC now as main OS and aside from some printers that i haven't managed to get installed yet (only tried once though, no compatibility mode or anything) i'm VERY pleased with it

 

I can't stand it.. Prefer Vista a lot

 

Everyone prefers to use and keep using knowledge they already have.

However........

a) a lot of win7 'sales' will be with new hardware.
b) a lot more win7 'sales' with be via corporate VLK programs.
c) some win7 sales will be via the Microsoft 'friends' program.

MSFT has always priced the 'full upgrade' price of their releases too high. They have also always offered a heavily discounted in-place upgrade price.

Don't Panic. It's months before official pricing for full versions and upgrade versions is official. And remember it's NOT official until the bar code hits the register scanner.

 

I am saving $30 a month, so that when W7 comes out next year, the purchase will be less of a shock. Not to mention, it is tax deductible, since I will be putting it in a laptop that I use for working at home.

 

Its coming this year, by November.

 

Prices will be what prices will be. For some, it'll be worth it and for others it won't in which case they'll just stall for a while.

I know that for me, I have to buy 5 licenses for my house which IMO isn't worth it if each license costs me 150+ $. I'll just keep milking off my OS(XP & Vista) until I can get a decent price or until those OSes stop doing what they need them to do.

 

How can price be an issue? The leaked (not offical) price of Windows 7 is $200 cheaper than Vista Ultimate at release. Makes no sense at all.

I too am setting aside money to by Windows 7 at release. I dual booted Windows 7 RC 1 64bit and Vista Ultimate 32bit, I rarely use the Vista partition. Too bad I made it the biggest partition.

 

Windows 7 will be for my primary notebook. I still have XP Pro and will probably purchase Vista Basic for another laptop (I found I never really used the rest of the crapware in the HP and Ultimate versions). I may finally bid the Mac OS X goodbye this year as I rarely use it for work now.

 

many of the people that will want to adapt win 7 early when it first is realeased are already big spenders and tech heads, the price is not going to slow them down.

It may turn away average joe, but average joe is not the guy going to be waiting in line to get the OS the day it comes out, he is the guy thats going to have it included with his next pc purchase in 2 years.

 

If ASUS releases working updates to their software for 7 i might make the jump. I just benched the RC for performance with all the drivers needed and im getting exactly the same scores.

I have no real issues on vista, all my software works. I can deal with the occasional quirk and skip 7 till the next pc if i have to. Wouldnt mind switching though.

 

If I can get both gpu's working on the W90 in Win 7 I will probably switch just because I like to stay ontop of the tech curve.

 

have you tried yet or no?

 

I had beta 7068 installed and think both cards were working but so far nobody has reported both cards working in RC 7100. I have to wait till my unit is back from RMA to test.

By the time its actually released Win 7 may have the issue fixed or Asus may hae the issue fixed.

 

Has anyone heard about the educational licensing? I don't know if it varies greatly between schools, but I wouldn't mind knowing what to expect. I got Vista Ultimate for just over $10 through my school last semester. I don't want to have to wait for the upgrade price to drop that much. As long as there is some sort of reasonable discount available soon after its release, I'll be fine. I have no problem carrying on with Vista but would like to experience what Windows 7 has to offer.

 

I do not know about educational licensing, but I know about education discounts.

Places like academic super store sell to students/teachers only and have lower prices. I got Vista when it first came out for like $89 (upgrade disk not full version but it installs as a full version if you know how)

 

The actual retail price of Windows 7 will largely be irrelevant to its ultimate success. The percentage of licenses that come from people actually buying boxes off the shelf to upgrade an existing machine is so small as to be insignificant.

The vast majority of OS licenses come from new machines and corporate volume licenses...and one assumes that those are priced differently than retail, ie, Dell isn't paying $300 (or whatever the retail price will be) to include Windows on a notebook. Neither is Boeing paying $300 per desktop for their 30,000 users.

Yes, many tech savvy and early adopter types will buy Windows 7 at retail, but those numbers pale in relation to those who will acquire the OS via other means.

 

I may purchase Win 7 but not if it's over £250 for Ultimate.

But even if I do buy it I won't be ditching XP, I have ditched Vista, I run a dual boot with XP so I can afford to get rid of Vista in favor of the Win 7 RC.

But the reason I won't be ditching XP is because 2 games I have, both fairly recent just don't work properly under Win 7 (and the same was true under Vista).

Fallout 3 - Occasional pauses as though I've hit a pause button and FPS drops during firefights from 30-40 to 9-11!

GTR Evolution/Race07/STCC - The Nordschleife and Valencia tracks ctd on me with a Visual C++ runtime error if I have more than 2 cars on the track or visual settings higher than low, but it works flawlessly in max visual settings in XP, apparently that issue was there in Vista as well so I can't see it being solved by M$ because it's probably not their fault.

So whilst Win 7 RC 64 bit is better than Vista, for me it's still not an XP replacement.

 

Rumor has it that MSDNAA may allow its subscribers a free copy of Win7 Pro. They already afford use a free copy of Win XP Pro and Vista Business, so this isnt necessarily out of the questions. Im just hoping its true.

Also, someone pointed earlier that people who buy a laptop with Vista between July and like, Feb I think, can upgrade to Win7 for free. However, im not sure exactly how true this is.

As for the price of Win7, this is one instance where Microsoft needs to watch Apple and take notes: 1 version; 1 price; all the features.