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Microsoft announces upgrade versions but raises price of full copies
Microsoft has finally confirmed it will sell upgrade editions of Windows 7 in the UK, as well as a three-computer family pack, but has raised the price of single full versions of the operating system.
The Family Pack will go on sale on the 22nd of October and will allow owners to install a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium on up to three computers. It will cost around £150, and will be available in limited quantities.
Initially Microsoft had planned to release a special version of Windows 7 without its Internet Explorer web browser in Europe. This made it impossible to sell the cheap upgrade versions, which allow users to convert a PC running Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 at a lower cost, so it announced plans to sell full copies at cut prices.
After reaching an agreement with the European Commission that will enable it to include Internet Explorer 8 alongside a selection of other web browsers for users to choose from, this plan has been slashed. It has now raised the price of full versions of Windows 7, and announced cheaper upgrade editions.
From September until the end of the year, upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium will cost £80, but in 2010 the price will rise to £100. Upgrades to Windows 7 Professional will cost £190, and upgrades to Windows 7 Ultimate will cost £200.
The price of a full copy of Windows 7 Home Premium has risen to £150, with Professional and Ultimate versions at £220 and £230.
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Windows 7
another rip off for consumers by microsoft
Posted by Edgar Mills, 25 Aug 2009
windows 7 upgrade
having just bought a dell inspiron laptop with vista home premium am i now to understand that i will not get a free upgrade in october,how many people bought laptops on the proviso of a free upgrade,sounds to me like iv,e been led up the garden path??
Posted by Brian Murphy, 28 Aug 2009
Screwed
What more can you expect from Microsoft. As usual they will screw you for the maximum they can get. So what is different from previously launched products?
Posted by Nick Hoskinson, 28 Aug 2009
Windows 7
Hello, here we go again! Prices up, fiddling about with agreements, good old Microsoft. Following the Vista debacle I thought they would have been a little less arrogant, but no, it's business as usual at Redmond.Thank goodness for Linux, I began to use this system a few months ago,and nothing now will persuade me to go back to Windows.
Posted by staffsknot, 28 Aug 2009
Is Windows 7 worth it?
What a rip off. Gates is obviously trying to recoup his lost billions in the recent banking/investment fiasco. He is throwing his toys out of his pram because he does not like does not like the Eu requirements and is making us pay. Unless you are a saddo who must have the latest of everything then don't buy seven. Better still change to a Mac which is superior, I am.
Posted by David French, 26 Aug 2009
Heck!
I have been trying out the RC version of Windows 7, and quite like it so far. However what will put me off the upgrade is the cost. We ar in the middle of a world-wide recession, and as one of the unemployed forking out the cost to upgrade from Xp to 7 is a bridge too far. Microsoft messed up Vista, and seem intent to phase out XP at some point, so why don't they offer Windows 7 at a low price for even a year? It's not as though they are poor.
Posted by Paul Streeting, 26 Aug 2009
Good OS steep price
Firstly it's not Bill Gates who has set the price on Windows 7 he stood down as Microsoft President at the begining of the year, the pricing is down to the UK end of Microsoft. They have relised that Windows 7 is a good OS and want as all companies do to make as much money on it as possibe. I will pay because I like it, if you don't want to pay go install Linux its free and is a goos OS as well. Just don't ask for support!
Posted by Donny Williams, 07 Sep 2009
They are at it again!
Microsoft at it again to screw the UK users of Windows. I'm now wondering what I will be supplied with having pre-ordered a copy of Windows 7 Home Premiun
Posted by David Spence, 27 Aug 2009
Windows 7 price rises.
Uuuumph! Here's me thinking that after paying the asking price to have Vista installed on a new computer and then to find that by general consensus of opinion that it is a second rate OS, I am well and truly miffed that Microsoft do not find it possible to offer a free upgrade to customers who had such a raw deal in their choice of Vista.
Posted by Ray Kyte, 27 Aug 2009
Windows 7 UK pricing
How does the UK price of Windows 7 compare with the price in the US?
Posted by J Bentley, 28 Aug 2009
Early Birds
What now happens to those that took up the offer of booking a copy Windows 7? Are we going to be called upon to pay the prices?
Posted by Trevor Collins, 29 Aug 2009
Microsoft - price hikes - never!
Microsoft wonder why people use illegal copies of their software and yet they continue to sell products at vastly inflated prices. I wonder if they ever thought that selling them cheaper would net them more sales. Lets face it a £50 upgrade is a lot better than an £80 upgrade - especially in todays climate. Lets hope Ubuntu starts to make some headway and makes Microsoft think about it's prices!
Posted by Lee Layland, 03 Sep 2009