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Title: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Petch on June 26, 2009, 12:51:39 PM
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/22049/Pre-order-Windows-7-Home-Premium-Upgrade-50--Windows-7-Professional-Upgrade-100 (http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/22049/Pre-order-Windows-7-Home-Premium-Upgrade-50--Windows-7-Professional-Upgrade-100)
Title: Re: Pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Windows 7 Professional Upgrade $10
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on June 26, 2009, 01:19:34 PM
for everyone still using XP, there is no upgrade option avialable.  You have to either upgrade to Vista then 7 or do a completely new install of 7.
Title: Re: Pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Windows 7 Professional Upgrade $10
Post by: Agent4054 on June 26, 2009, 01:46:56 PM
lol i think you're missing a 0 in your topic title ;)
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Petch on June 26, 2009, 01:56:07 PM
lol i think you're missing a 0 in your topic title ;)

I ran outa characters!!  I fixed it by shortening other parts of the topic.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on June 26, 2009, 04:56:17 PM
I've actually been toying with the idea of getting a technet subscription.  Right now, they are $250 for a year.  At that price, I would have access to Windows 7 before it comes out, access to the full versions of Windows servers, Office, etc.  And from what i  understand, the licenses are perpetual, so when your 1 year is up, you can still use whatever apps you downloaded and used during the subscription.

With Win7 Ultimate costing $220 to uprade, $250 for technet is sounding pretty darn good.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on June 26, 2009, 04:58:01 PM
for everyone still using XP, there is no upgrade option avialable.  You have to either upgrade to Vista then 7 or do a completely new install of 7.

That's LAME!
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on June 26, 2009, 05:39:08 PM
I've actually been toying with the idea of getting a technet subscription.  Right now, they are $250 for a year.  At that price, I would have access to Windows 7 before it comes out, access to the full versions of Windows servers, Office, etc.  And from what i  understand, the licenses are perpetual, so when your 1 year is up, you can still use whatever apps you downloaded and used during the subscription.

With Win7 Ultimate costing $220 to uprade, $250 for technet is sounding pretty darn good.

Everything on the technet site says $350 for a subscription.  And as far as the subscriptions go can you install multiple copies of the software?  or would it be 1 7, 1 vista, 1 xp etc.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on June 28, 2009, 05:52:38 PM
there's a coupon code:  http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/26/microsoft-offering-100-technet-discount-till-july-3 (http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/26/microsoft-offering-100-technet-discount-till-july-3)

Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 28, 2009, 05:57:40 PM
I just looked and it tells you for a new subscription it is $350 and if you are already a subscriber then it will be $250 for a renew.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on June 28, 2009, 06:10:23 PM
um, go to the link they provided, enter the code they provided, and POOF, $250
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 28, 2009, 09:15:51 PM
Just saying, not like I would want to spend that every year for some service I would never use.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on June 29, 2009, 05:58:10 AM
And from what i  understand, the licenses are perpetual, so when your 1 year is up, you can still use whatever apps you downloaded and used during the subscription.

So, follow me here... spend $250, get a copy of anything MS already is selling and anything new MS sells within the next year.  Download it, keep it, and use it for life.  When the 1 year expires, don't re-up unless you know of another new version of Server, Desktop OS, or Office that it would make sense to re-up for.  But you keep to keep anything you downloaded during the 1 year.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 29, 2009, 09:58:18 AM
I followed from the start. I am just saying that me personally I would never use the service.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: sully! on June 29, 2009, 09:49:24 PM
He doesn't get it....just give up :P
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Petch on June 30, 2009, 09:06:55 AM
He doesn't get it....just give up :P


Lost cause!
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Shoctor on July 01, 2009, 02:52:24 PM
Yep, but the first to complain about a difficult activation scheme that can't be easily pirated. Also, I don't blame them for not supporting an XP upgrade... THEY DON'T FudgeING SUPPORT XP ANYMORE! If they aren't supporting an OS any longer they certainly aren't supporting it's upgrade path.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on July 01, 2009, 07:15:47 PM
i'm confused
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: Broken on July 02, 2009, 09:33:22 AM
i'm not. I now have purpose in life... the crapping on the lawn of a billionaire.
Title: Re: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100
Post by: The Nstuff on July 21, 2009, 05:34:14 PM
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

MS released dates on when various groups will get Win7.  W00T