Microsoft Online Store Open for Business
Microsoft is planning on opening brick and mortar stores this fall, that news has been out for some time. While futzing around on the web today I happened to notice that the Microsoft online Store is open for business, something I had not heard. The store is a place to buy all of Microsoft’s products and prominently displayed is the ability to preorder Windows 7. Windows 7 was confirmed today to go RTM on August 6 but you can preorder your copy directly on the Microsoft Store.
The pricing is as we expected for upgrades and Windows 7 Home Premium will set you back $199.99 for a full licensed copy. Not surprisingly there is no preorder option for Office 2010 yet, given it’s just gone for technical preview.
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It’s $119 for Windows 7 Home Premium, not $199.
Adam, Windows 7 Home Premium is $119 for an upgrade copy to install over Windows 2000, XP or Vista. For a full, standalone license without a prior Windows license, it is $199.
Nope, as stated a FULL license, not the upgrade, will cost you $199.99.
Wow, that’s scary. We both commented at the exact same time. :)
MS online = ripoff. Everyone knows you can pick up OEM copies of the full OS for much cheaper.
I believe Microsoft have had an online store for quite a while now. Probably more than a year. It’s not heavily publicised though.
I dunno -
I just downward ‘upgraded’ my computer life to an Asus Eee 1005HA running XP, tossing my ‘old’ HP Vista notebook in my tech junk closet and I’m enjoying a remarkably faster and arguably more stable computer experience already.
I’ve yet to read any reports on Win7 (aka Vista SP3 or WinME 2009) that would encourage me to move to that OS on either of these devices. I’m not seeing a game changer in any of the reports – or the minimal experience I have had with that OS.
Microsoft should have just bitten the bullet with Win7 and ‘done an Apple’ – scrap entirely their legacy OS and started afresh. Instead of a purchase of a Win7 Upgrade, I’ll be devoting that $119 towards something I can really find useful.
You don’t know what you’re talking about and your trolling is a few years out of date.