Best way to get Win7 licenses for the office?

We want to upgrade out work computers from Win XP Pro to Win 7 Pro. We have requested some volume license quotes from places like Dell and our local IT consultants and each has been over $300, I look on Newegg today and see that the full retail version of Win7 Pro is $274 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116717). Is newegg going to be my best bet on purchasing Windows 7 Pro for my office?

Also do I have to get the full version or can I get the upgrade? i am a little confused on that because I have read places that indicate you cannot get the upgrade unless you already have Vista.

Thanks!

You can upgrade from a licensing standpoint from XP to 7, but you'll need to do a clean install. You can only run an install upgrade from Vista.

For what you want you'd probably be best going with OEM copies or buy upgrade copies. I'm not sure how many systems are you talking about?

darkpaw said:

You can upgrade from a licensing standpoint from XP to 7, but you'll need to do a clean install. You can only run an install upgrade from Vista.

For what you want you'd probably be best going with OEM copies or buy upgrade copies. I'm not sure how many systems are you talking about?

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Thanks for the info, its not a lot of systems 13 at most that is why I think the VLC's are so expensive its because we are not getting that many. Dell barely even wanted to talk to us with that few of licences.

spotdog14 said:

Thanks for the info, its not a lot of systems 13 at most that is why I think the VLC's are so expensive its because we are not getting that many. Dell barely even wanted to talk to us with that few of licences.

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At 13 licenses you should be able to save a little bit. Call up CDW. I've seen them give pretty decent discounts to 5 machine shops.

Actually I just ran across the Newegg OEM software that looks to save me a bunch at $140 for what I can till is the full Win7 Pro version.

If you want to be legit, the OEM licenses are out of the question - they're for installs on new builds. Upgrade copies are going to be cheaper anyways.

First off, you can buy upgrades as long as you're licensed for XP or later on each machine. No need to buy the ful version. You just won't be able to do an upgrade install. Buying OEM isn't really legit unless you're going to resell them.

Here is a good question... what are the system specs of these systems you are wanting to upgrade from XP to 7?

I personally wouldn't bother unless the machines had at a bare minimum a dual core processor with at least 2GB of RAM. Any thing below that is just a waste to upgrade the OS since you can get a whole new system with Win7 Pro for under $500.