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"Pre-order at 50% off and select "Release Date Delivery" option at checkout (see details). Amazon Prime™ members can select "FREE Release-Date Delivery" at checkout. Limit 3 per Customer on Home Premium Upgrade and Professional Upgrade. If you purchase full or upgrade versions of Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, on or after June 26, you will qualify for a Windows 7 Upgrade at the reduced price of $9.99." | ||
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| #1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 6/26/2009 9:27:54 AM |
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Great! Vista Ultimate owners got screwed once more....
Very smart MS, very smart.... |
| #2 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at 6/26/2009 9:51:07 AM |
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#1, Yep. They. Did. It. Again.
Can you believe it? Their most vocal critics and advocates, constituting less than 1% of their user base (can't remember where I read where one of the company's officers shared the number), with the nearly priceless potential to have cause to advocate for the company, got, not just screwed, but insulted publicly! let me add a few more exclamation marks there... !!!!!!! I'll be the first, and perhaps last, to say that Windows <version> Ultimate, especially in the case of Vista, was not about "extras" nearly as much as it was about it being complete enough to sate enthusiasts. Anyone buying Vista Ultimate for the "extras" bought that version of the OS for the wrong reasons. I also wrote sharply about how Windows Vista Business had a problem, because unlike Windows XP Professional and now Windows 7 Professional, it was not a complete super-set of Home Premium. Ok, they fixed that one, now, but at the same time, they removed the few extras they did ship - even for existing users of Vista Ultimate. Now they add the Ultimate Insult to previous injury by not offering Vista Ultimate owners a break at all. What that communicates is that the company DOES NOT VALUE that 1% and they assume that Ultimate owners are either MSDN/TechNet Plus subscribers, or willing to pay for Ultimate no matter what it costs. The massive good (free) will they could have gained, they just pissed on and away. In either case, their most vocal and effective advocates are being disrespected. Worse still... Vista Ultimate users who are not tech enthusiasts, but business owners and executives that wanted business and media features, who use largely higher end notebooks, are going to want to know what happened to the few extras they did like and used. Some actually liked DreamScenes and really did play Tinker. I plan on beating this drum for a long, long while. |
| #3 By 230668 (97.83.229.255) at 6/26/2009 10:40:53 AM |
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Deleted--Accidental double post This post was edited by jbuch on Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:42. |
| #4 By 230668 (97.83.229.255) at 6/26/2009 10:41:21 AM |
| I want to upgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate RC. Would it be possible to Pre-order Windows 7 Professional at the reduced rate and then purchase an anytime upgrade key for about $20 and be able to upgrade directly from RC to RTM? |
| #5 By 415 (167.6.247.203) at 6/26/2009 12:23:52 PM |
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Could it be that maybe Microsoft just hasn't hammered out the exact details and pricing of the Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade yet? It's still too early to pass judgement, and assume they're not going to take care of Vista Ultimate customers.
jbuch - You can upgrade from the Beta to RC version, or the RC to the RTM version following the unsupported procedures here - http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/07/delivering-a-quality-upgrade-experience.aspx |
| #6 By 95132 (96.25.183.211) at 6/26/2009 12:25:51 PM |
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If they made the upgrade pricing the ultimate retail pricing or close they would sell better and make up a bit for the semi-disaster that was vista. Seriously 300$ for Ultimate? $200 for full copy of professional? Those should be in the area of 189$ and 139$
If your a ms technologist looking for ultimate there's no point in retail, just get a technet+plus subscription for 259$ (100$ discount though july 3rd -see neowin) and get access to Ultimate and Office etc. |
| #7 By 230668 (97.83.229.255) at 6/26/2009 1:13:53 PM |
| I knew about that workaround Ironclad but thanks for posting the link. My question was more related to the cost. The Ultimate upgrade costs $220 which is $20 more than professional. Ultimate can only be upgraded to Ultimate when doing an inplace upgrade so I'm looking at purchasing Windows 7 Ultimate. Win 7 Professional special price is $100. What I need to know is whether it's possible to buy Professional at the special price, pay $20 for the upgrade to Ultimate which I think is just a different installation key and still do the inplace upgrade. If so, that would be a way to upgrade to Ultimate for $120. I didn't know if you had to install the bought version and then you can use the anytime upgrade or can the anytime upgrade key be used during the install process to basically change Professional to Ultimate. |
| #8 By 143 (96.28.64.244) at 6/26/2009 9:41:22 PM |
| Why buy when Win8 is just around the corner? |
| #9 By 79018 (74.70.9.133) at 6/26/2009 9:45:33 PM |
| I've pre-ordered 2 for the two PC's I have, at that price it's a bargain. |
| #10 By 143 (96.28.64.244) at 6/27/2009 5:20:16 PM |
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Does anybody know if Win7 upgrade keys work with full MSDN copies?
Just being curious... |
| #11 By 169439 (202.149.42.101) at 6/29/2009 5:52:27 AM |
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@lketchum,
Luckily, even if Microsoft doesn't wish so, all of the Ultimate Extras run on Windows 7. Here's how: - DreamScene (the leaked version that simply registers the DreamScene DLL). Also, Stardocks' DeskScapes 1.02 is free for Ultimate owners. There's the commercial version 2.5 too. If it's not Windows 7 compatible, it will be soon. - BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool is now part of the OS. - Secure Online Key Backup: This one's nuked but you can always export your key locally and store it online. - Hold 'Em Poker (this one's a secret-since Hold'Em is protected by Windows licensing APIs). Download this ZIP file (http://sites.google.com/site/msftguy/Home/slc.zip) and extract slc.dll of the relevant architecture (x86/x64) to Hold 'Em Poker's folder. Hold' Em runs as well. You might want to copy help files too from %Windir%\Help - MUI language packs: Are going to be available for Windows 7 owners too - Sound Schemes: Just save the sound files and export the sound scheme from the Vista registry, copy those files to Windows 7 and import the sound scheme in the registry. - Microsoft Tinker: Runs without any problem on Windows 7. Doesn't have any licensing protection. The Tinker Level Editor which is downloadable also runs. - As a bonus, you can run InkBall (the Vista version too) in Windows 7 if you copy Slc.dll to its folder. Be sure to copy its help files as well. This post was edited by anonymuos on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 05:54. |
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