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Author Topic: Pre-order Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade $50, Win7 Professional Upgrade $100  (Read 1939 times)

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« Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 01:55:37 PM by Petch »

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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.
Never, but never question the engineers judgement.

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lol i think you're missing a 0 in your topic title ;)

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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.

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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.
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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!

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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.
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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.
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um, go to the link they provided, enter the code they provided, and POOF, $250
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Just saying, not like I would want to spend that every year for some service I would never use.
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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.
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I followed from the start. I am just saying that me personally I would never use the service.
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He doesn't get it....just give up :P
Please just walk away. I don't want to have to stand here and say something so awesome that I'll have to remember it the rest of the day. Thank you!

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He doesn't get it....just give up :P


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