Have you pre-ordered Windows 7 yet?

Have you pre-ordered Windows 7?

  • Yes, Home Premium Edition

    Votes: 71 28.0%

  • Yes, Professional Edition

    Votes: 51 20.1%

  • No

    Votes: 132 52.0%
  • Total voters
    254
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Krycek1

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Just curious, how many people have already pre-ordered Windows 7 from newegg, best buy, etc.
 
there is still plenty of time for microsoft to screw up windows 7.. with microsofts track record on the last 3 OS's.. i refuse to pre-order anything from them..
 
Let's see... I know I'm eventually going to end up buying it. Would I like it to cost $200 or $100, hmm...

yeah, I preordered 2 of the Professional editions. I'm using Windows 7 now on my home computer and it seems great.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
there is still plenty of time for microsoft to screw up windows 7.. with microsofts track record on the last 3 OS's.. i refuse to pre-order anything from them..
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While it possible to see your point from a historical perspective in regaurds to Windows 7 at this point there really isn't anything LEFT to screw up. 7 is going gold pretty much as we speak, the beta and RC have been out for almost the whole year and there just haven't been many issues.

Windows 7 is the real deal at this point. It's done and solid and will be VERY well received with on the economy being an issue at this point.

Well done Microsoft. Please keep up the good work.

As for the poll, I'm hoping to see Windows 7 RTM on MSDN at the end of the month or early next and will take ALL of my in service boxen to it on that day. I'm on it full time now anyway so the RTM is almost just a formality though I do have a few issues, the biggest being proper pen and touch function on my HP tx2z Tablet PC.
 
heatlesssun said:
While it possible to see your point from a historical perspective in regaurds to Windows 7 at this point there really isn't anything LEFT to screw up. 7 is going gold pretty much as we speak, the beta and RC have been out for almost the whole year and there just haven't been many issues.

Windows 7 is the real deal at this point. It's done and solid and will be VERY well received with on the economy being an issue at this point.

Well done Microsoft. Please keep up the good work.

As for the poll, I'm hoping to see Windows 7 RTM on MSDN at the end of the month or early next and will take ALL of my in service boxen to it on that day. I'm on it full time now anyway so the RTM is almost just a formality though I do have a few issues, the biggest being proper pen and touch function on my HP tx2z Tablet PC.
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all i can say is.. i hope so.. because the vista beta's were awesome too.. then all of a sudden they just scrapped the whole OS 3 months before its release and started all over again and vista was never the same after..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
all i can say is.. i hope so.. because the vista beta's were awesome too.. then all of a sudden they just scrapped the whole OS 3 months before its release and started all over again and vista was never the same after..
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Windows 7 is a done deal. It's not going to be scraped and its gotten great reviews thus far. While there are always issues with anything as complex as Windows 7, what you see now in the RC and later leaks is what we're going to get. There just aren't that many unknowns in 7 anymore.

At this point nothing important is going to change and with 6 months of millions of copies of Windows 7 running around the world there's really nothing much left to know at this point.
 
backup to network isn't that bad, Guess someone might 'hack' it for us to use or additionally just have a External Hdd around. Not worth the 50 bucks more, at least for me.
 
It's not public until 3rd-ish week of October. I can wait. Pre-ordering this early..wow..obsessive much?
 
I voted no, since I got in on that Technet deal last week or so and will be getting the Ultimate version off Technet.
 
I have my Microcenter $39.99 coupon receipt for Home Premium.

Thought it was a good deal, sounds like it will convert my OEM system builder copy of Vista I got from newegg back whenver that is tied to my current hardware to a retail upgrade copy of Win7 that I can move to a new PC for my next upgrade =)!!!!

The no money down thing sealed it. No way would I have given some third party my money to sit on until it was released.

I'm really liking Win7RC, so I'm pretty excited about getting the final copy on the cheap. I plan to be scouring the net for a RTM copy asap anyway, either torrent or I know a couple buddies with technet/MSDN accounts. Get running on it in demo mode as early as possible, make sure retail isn't fubar, then when Oct 22 rolls around, should be simple matter to drop legit code to finish activation.
 
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YeOldeStonecat said:
It's not public until 3rd-ish week of October. I can wait. Pre-ordering this early..wow..obsessive much?
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You did catch that the pre-order was only $50 for premium, right? I picked up three copies because of that. If you're even considering it, then it was worth the pre-order. Heck, if you don't use it, you can always sell it for twice what you paid after it's released.
 
I pre-ordered Win7 because the 50% off deal is only good for a few weeks. Another option is buy Vista now and get free upgrade to Win7.
 
Not yet...I'm wondering what will OEM pricing be like on Newegg, etc.
 
PolygonGTC said:
I voted no. I don't see there being an issue getting a copy when it comes out.
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No issue getting it but you will pay full price instead of the $49.99 (Home Prem Upgrade) you can pre-order it for now. In Canada it is $64.99. If I wait for it to come out it would probably cost me $149.99 CAD. The deal is only on for another week or so.
 
I ordered 3 home premium and 1 pro, and plan on using my copies of XP to do clean installs. One for my wife/family machine, one for mine, one for my media center, and one for my office computer. $200 for four copies of an operating system at the beginning of it's life cycle is simply amazing value.
 
I'll wait for MS to give out promotional copies. :p
 
I ordered two of the Home Premium....I usually end up with free software, but at this price I don't want to have to jump through any of Microsoft's hoops to get free software. $100 bucks for two operating systems is a good price. Free is certainly better, but this is a close second.
 
i'd like to but my copy of vista is oem. Meaning I can only install it on this motherboard. If I have to have vista installed to install an upgrade copy of 7 then it won't work for me as i'll be building a new computer.

However I have heard reports that the upgrade verification for 7 from vista could simply be a disc check and that you don't actually have to have vista installed. If this is the case I will pre-order professional.
 
1 Pro + 3 Home. I have my main rig, which will be running pro, then my netbook, laptop, and HTPC running home.
 
Did Microsoft do this preorder deal with Vista?

Why are they doing it with Windows 7. It seems like the people pre-ordering would have bought it when it came out anyway. Seems like they're losing profits here.
 
Ordered one Professional license, hoping for an Ultimate Steal deal for students for my second license. I like network backup and location-aware printing, that's why I went Professional.
 
Krycek1 said:
Did Microsoft do this preorder deal with Vista?

Why are they doing it with Windows 7. It seems like the people pre-ordering would have bought it when it came out anyway. Seems like they're losing profits here.
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They are doing it as a peace offering for all those that felt they got ripped off on Vista. Vista was not popular with the general public. "Don't stare a gift horse in the mouth".
 
Yep, Technet rocks... and we get access to the RTM copies in July instead of October.
 
GJSNeptune said:
TechNet

So I suppose I can say I've pre-ordered Windows 7 Ultimate. :p
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This.

+ another one :D

Archer75 said:
i'd like to but my copy of vista is oem. Meaning I can only install it on this motherboard. If I have to have vista installed to install an upgrade copy of 7 then it won't work for me as i'll be building a new computer.
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That was never really a problem with Vista and it won't be a problem with Windows 7 either.

Krycek1 said:
Did Microsoft do this preorder deal with Vista?

Why are they doing it with Windows 7. It seems like the people pre-ordering would have bought it when it came out anyway. Seems like they're losing profits here.
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Microsoft's OS sales have been in a bit of a slump lately. All they're doing is flogging off a few retail licenses at OEM license price, to give sales a bit of a shot in the arm. It's kinda like an economic stimulus package :D
 
Catweazle said:
That was never really a problem with Vista and it won't be a problem with Windows 7 either.
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From what I understand in vista you had to do an install on top of a XP install if you were using the upgrade disc. You couldn't install and upgrade on a bare drive even if you had an XP disc.
 
I pre-ordered 3 copies of Home Premium, one from NewEgg and two from Amazon. When I pre-ordered, NewEgg had a limit of 1 per customer on Home Premium, but now it's at 3. I'm thinking of canceling the Amazon order and getting them from NewEgg since they have free 3-day shipping vs. Amazon's slow ass free super saver shipping.

I'm also thinking about changing my order to Pro instead of Home Premium. The only thing I need from the Pro is RDP server, and at first I didn't think it would be worth the extra $50. My desktop and netbook are both running XP Home, and my HTPC runs MCE 2005. I use remote desktop to connect to my HTPC (since MCE is based on XP Pro) if I'm away and need to set it to record something or just do updates and maintenance since it doesn't have a keyboard or mouse hooked to it.

Only Win7 Pro and up have RDP server, but there's a hack for Vista to enable RDP in the Home edition, so I went with Home Premium hoping it would be cracked soon for Win7 Home. I've done some more reading on it, and there are some problems with the crack to enable RDP server in home.

I use VNC to connect to my netbook when I need to do something on it. The free VNC doesn't support Vista, but UltraVNC claims to support Vista and Win7. I decided to give UltraVNC a try today, but I can't get it working. I've seen videos of it working on Vista, and it doesn't work as well as the native RDP server. Any commercial remote desktop software is going to cost about $50 anyway, so I'm thinking I may switch my pre-orders to the Pro version.
 
Archer75 said:
From what I understand in vista you had to do an install on top of a XP install if you were using the upgrade disc. You couldn't install and upgrade on a bare drive even if you had an XP disc.
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That's 'officially'. In reality you could use the install disk to deploy a 'trial' install, without using the install code, and then launch a 'custom clean' install from that. Windows 7 will either use the same type of installer (most likely scenario) or modify it to again allow a verifying install disk to be checked during the install (less likely).
 
Catweazle said:
That's 'officially'. In reality you could use the install disk to deploy a 'trial' install, without using the install code, and then launch a 'custom clean' install from that. Windows 7 will either use the same type of installer (most likely scenario) or modify it to again allow a verifying install disk to be checked during the install (less likely).
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Yes, I knew there was that workaround to that. But I am hoping 7 supports disc verification instead of only install verification. I have heard that it just may.
 
I ordered a copy for $50. I'm not entirely fond of Windows, but Win7 is worth $50. I wouldn't pay more than that though.
 
jimnms said:
I pre-ordered 3 copies of Home Premium, one from NewEgg and two from Amazon. When I pre-ordered, NewEgg had a limit of 1 per customer on Home Premium, but now it's at 3. I'm thinking of canceling the Amazon order and getting them from NewEgg since they have free 3-day shipping vs. Amazon's slow ass free super saver shipping.

I'm also thinking about changing my order to Pro instead of Home Premium. The only thing I need from the Pro is RDP server, and at first I didn't think it would be worth the extra $50. My desktop and netbook are both running XP Home, and my HTPC runs MCE 2005. I use remote desktop to connect to my HTPC (since MCE is based on XP Pro) if I'm away and need to set it to record something or just do updates and maintenance since it doesn't have a keyboard or mouse hooked to it.

Only Win7 Pro and up have RDP server, but there's a hack for Vista to enable RDP in the Home edition, so I went with Home Premium hoping it would be cracked soon for Win7 Home. I've done some more reading on it, and there are some problems with the crack to enable RDP server in home.

I use VNC to connect to my netbook when I need to do something on it. The free VNC doesn't support Vista, but UltraVNC claims to support Vista and Win7. I decided to give UltraVNC a try today, but I can't get it working. I've seen videos of it working on Vista, and it doesn't work as well as the native RDP server. Any commercial remote desktop software is going to cost about $50 anyway, so I'm thinking I may switch my pre-orders to the Pro version.
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www.logmein.com (free)

And I use ultravnc all the time on my Vista boxes just fine.
 
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