Since today until January 31st, 2010, the worldwide upgrade option programme of Microsoft has began. It will allow users, who buy a new PC running Windows Vista Home, Business or Ultimate, to automatically get Windows 7 when it will be available.
 
Scheduled to be marketed on October 22nd, in 14 languages (English, Spanish, German, French, etc.), Microsoft has also outlined an upgrade deal for people who buy now a Vista PCs, in which participating PC makers will offer Windows 7 for the Vista machine for free (or with a small charge for shipping and handling).
 
 
 
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Sounds cool, can't wait for the final release.

Yup, hope lives up to the hype

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Hehe, where I'm going to college, students in Computer Engineering get most Microsoft products (e.g. Windows, Office) for free (or for 10-20 dollars if they're brand new releases)! Only if I want to upgrade to professional will I have to pay about $50 more.

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Varies in Europe though, where Microsoft claim that regulations imposed upon them stop them from offering updates at discounted prices... what a load of Bull$hit. They just want to make the EU regulatory people look bad, all they wanted was users to have a fair choice of browser.

I fully intend not to get Windows 7 - I have better things to waste money on, like stubbing my toe or buying a fence made of paper. I'll live with vista/Ubuntu until I buy a mac.

Though I suppose it's worth congratulating Microsoft on (hopefully) improving on Vista a bit. I might need update to survive. I'll see what performance improvements are like according to users.

But Macs suck ... why would you want to waste twice the money on them ... ?

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A completely unfounded personal opinion, we all have our whims.
 
Please let's not start all this again.

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And this is not an opinion?

Fine, but then please don't imply that Macs are any better.

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I only implied them as being better as a personal preference, I never said they were in fact or actuality.
 
Don't put $hit in my mouth.

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Yes, well, when I say "Macs suck", that is also my personal preference. You cannot objectively state hate or love, likes or dislikes, or what sucks and what rocks.
 
It's already full of it.  
 
And why would you try to censor shit?

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No idea, just a habit from old forums

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Perhaps it's better to avoid those kind of words altogether. It's a good exercise for you two to communicate on this forum without vulgar words not suitable for other visitors. This is a friendly community remember. And if you don't like that > move on to somewhere else please.

OK, I will use word like poopoo or whatever from now on ...
 
LOL, JK! Won't use them at all!

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Could someone, probably Uttaresh , quickly go over the differences between Windows 7 home premium, and professional? Cheers
 
I'm going to pre-order probably, I only pay that 49.99 right?

Here you go. I think it's silly that you need Ultimate for the OS to work in all languages.. That should at least be in Professional, and perhaps even Home Premium.

Basically, the only advantage of Professional is that it has Windows XP compatibility mode. If you don't even care for that, go with the basic version.
 
I remember I bought Professional when XP came out. Two-three years later, I bought Home. Had no difference whatsoever.

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I'll probably just go for home premium then. Cheers Gruzzy and Uttaresh
 
And I like how Home Premium is in fact the only Home version anyway. God Microsoft still think they've made a hundred different versions with slightly differing names

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Kind of like Leopard and Snow Leopard, don't you think?

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But Sn ow Leopard isn't one of 18 different OS versions, released at the same time

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Uhm, no? These are 2 different operating systems.. With each OS release, there is a 'normal' version and a 'server' version. That's it.

Right ...

All Mac OS X.

And Snow Leopard is a lame name. Couldn't they come up with some other wild cat's name? You know, they could've been planning on naming it Cougar, but of course, it's now taken up by older women looking for ... never mind ...

Oh, and notice that Cheetah and Leopard almost the same.

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Same OS X but they aren't all slightly different versions of MAC OS X, like the windows XP, Vista, 7 versions. They were all different versions in the same way XP was different to Vista

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That's not really a statement that makes any sense? They are all different OS's, it just show they're based on the same 'base of code'. From Wikipedia:

Windows 2000
Windows XP
(Windows Server 2003)
Windows Vista
(Windows Home Server and Windows Server 2008)
Windows 7

All Windows NT!  

Probably to show that it's not a big-feature wide improvement. At least none that a lot of users can see directly. But most of it 'under the system' improvements.

LOL, have you ever even used Windows NT? There's no way you can compare it with XP, Vista, or 7.

If you say all Windows are alike, I might as well say all Mac OS are alike, hence that Mac OS X is still Mac OS 1.0! No, I'm saying that Mac has been running the same OS X for almost ten years now with no major upgrades. Comparing NT to XP, well there's a huge change. No more BSOD for one thing.

And no, it's because they've run out of names. The only two prominent cats that are left are lions and cougars. Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X Lioness sounds pathetic, and Mac OS X Cougar sounds like a special edition for promiscuous older females.

OOOHHHH, how about Mac OS X Garfield!? That would be AWESOME!

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We are meaning, that Mac OS X for ten years, and Windows NT.
 
The basic underlying s...stuff, with major updates along the line.

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