Consumers Won't Pay $120 for Windows 7 Upgrade
 

Interesting read.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/17386...7_upgrade.html

Future Shop are giving everyone who buys a new PC a free upgrade when it comes out.

Can see why people wouldn't bother paying to upgrade though, doubt it will be much better than vista (I wouldn't know, but from a buyers point of view)

I'd rather wait til my PC gets fucked and buy a new one with whatever is the standard then, rather than upgrading to 7.

Has anyone tried it yet? I'd like to see what people think.

Also, RapidShare or some other filesharing site will be packed with this shit anyway lol bet there won't be many people that pay for the upgrade either way....

I bought a couple additional quad core PC's off the shelf from Best Buy a few months back (that I use for video rendering machines) and they told me at the time I bought them the upgrade was free when it comes out.

The clerk was a rave with Windows 7. I was like, "Time will tell".

Point being that they have been using that upgrade pitch for at least a few months if not longer at the chains. No added cost.

MS never ever would say something is worth X, then let people or sell it themselves for Y, and say boo hoo we took a Z loss on this product per sale and perhaps take a small deduction or something.

I have a friend that is an engineer at Intel and they have been doing a lot of work with Windows 7 over the last months. He can't stop saying good stuff about it. He also says that for a limited time Microsoft will be offering a multi-license upgrade pack. He says it looks like it will allow you to install it on 3 different computers and it will cost about $160-$180. that is a pretty good deal for those with more than one PC or people who want to go in with a friend and buy it.

Rule of thumb, if it makes you money pay for it.

Upgraded mine a few months back, no flaws nothing but good things. Finished upgrading the office last week and will buy a corporate license.

~$100 is a drop in the bucket if it saves your employees 1 days worth of productivity over the year.

:thumbsup

I'm running on Windows 7 on both pcs and laptop now and love it :) xx

I've been spending a few hours a day with ubuntu, loving it so far. Fuck windows.

That's probably built into the licensing arrangement - you're getting an obsolete version of Windows for now, with the "real" version promised once it's released. Same thing happened when Vista's release was imminent and builders were still shipping XP.

If you bought Windows in a software box, or some time ago, then it probably needs to be a paid upgrade.

The latest Apple OS update was 25 bones... and was just as effective as a Vista/ Win 7 swap.

I wouldn't pay for Windows 7, but I would use it if it was free :)

http://www.ubuntu.com/

YUP. The new Mac OS was actually good and sped things up and shaved of a bunch of gigs off of my hard drive that were not needed.


MS seems to be dropping the ball.

For those who are liking W7, what exactly is better about it? Say, over Vista? Other than the little Aero engine tweaks we've heard about.

I'll be running W7 and the upgrade seems to be worth the cost. My opinion from the beta - looks and feels updated like Vista did but runs on XP simplicity and speed. Not to mention that they brought back a few features that they dumped with Vista (the person in charge of that development should be (was probably) fired). :)

funny, to upgrade my mac to the latest OS last month, cost me a WHOPPING $29!

and I was happy to pay for it :)

That said, even as a mac fan boy, Windows 7 does look pretty good and has peaked my interest, but like fuck I'm paying $120 for my alternate OS

Free and legal enterprise edition from a friend. :) Haven't installed it yet though.

I have been enjoying Win7 over Vista, but the pricepoint is a hanger, especially with as I pointed out above OS updates coming out for Apple at 25.

Win 7 sped things up considerably as far as day to day operation. The OS itself uses less RAM to stay up on basic functions, and handles most programs more efficiently (from my experience on 64 bit)

I wrote quite a few blog posts on WIn 7 and spent the time to read feedbacks, etc. .... I'm not going into boring details, but I believe that it is well worth the money and it is also way better than Vista, I for one will be buying it for sure!!!

Looking to try this out soon :)

Anybody else remember the huge rush when '95 came out? Now, I just can't be bothered to upgrade until I have no choice.

I lost two hard drives so on my 3rd one I tried win7 I loved it but.. when it was time to do real work on it, I was freaking lost! The ease of windows xp compared to win7 is much better! I couldn't get photo shop to work, and a few other programs! Oh and trying to network with my other 4 PC's was a Joke! Nope I paid $150.00 for windows Xp Pro so wont be going anywhere anytime soon!

cash fuckers

Windows 7 is bad ass.

Well if that is the case, I have yet to have an issue with it on these machines.

I doubt I will do the upgrade unless there is some major advantage I hear of later. I replace machines every 12-18 months as it is. So everything will be upgraded in my office in a short period of time as is.

These new computers are used to just render videos anyway. So unless it is going to change that in some significant way, which I doubt, then it's not worth the grief.

Also to be said..... it cracks me up how many webmasters and program owners are hung up on a mere $100-150 for the software upgrade. :1orglaugh

I can only imagine what kind of loaf they drop in their panties if they have to actually pay for a Photo Shop, Premiere, Sorenson (among others) license.

:1orglaugh

what an idiot:

No software isnt free... browsers trying to break into an already free market (browsers) cant charge so of course Firefox and Chrome are free.

idiot.

Aren't we all?

Thats weird man. Win 7 for me worked flawlessly with everything, and networking took like 2 mins to get going.

The other $100 was subsidized via apples hardware profits. MS doesn't make money on hardware.

I'll be buying it the first day it comes out. Didn't know they had a family pack, that will save some cashola. I need it for a few computers.

Been using Windows 7 for about 6 months now and it's what Vista should have been.

Btw for the Mac guys, the last 2 updates haven't added shit.