Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8 Hours

Barence writes "In order to ensure Windows 7 got off to a better start than Vista in the UK, Microsoft slashed the cost of Home and Home Professional by a third on promotional copies which were sold on a 'first come, first served basis while stocks last.' The promotion ensured Windows 7 shot to the top of Amazon's charts when it was released yesterday, with the online retailer claiming that 'sales in the first eight hours outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17-week pre-order period.' The price of pre-ordering Windows 7 has now shot up to £80, after the £50 copies sold out within a day."

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Re:Can't say I'm surprised....

[prisoner-of-enigma]

Great? Great? Windows 7 is better than Vista, that's it's only claim to fame. It's far from "great".

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Pure opinion and far from the opinion of most people.

Then perhaps you'd be so good as to post what makes Win7 "far from great" that isn't "pure opinion" on your part?

Win7 has a lot going for it. I'm not going to say it's perfect (no OS -- even your pet one -- is perfect, nor will it ever be), but it's quite good. Faster than Vista, more secure (by default) than XP, and easier to administrate, runs better on lower hardware specs than Vista...I could go on.

XP feels clunky by comparison. I mean, after all, XP was released eight years ago. Visually, functionally, and ergonomically, most OS's have evolved a long ways since then. XP reaps no benefits from that and is essentially frozen in time circa 2001. After using the Win7 beta and RC for several months now, going back to troubleshoot an XP workstation starkly illustrates how Win7 is a superior platform in nearly any respect.

My biggest gripe is Win7 shouldn't be a fully separate product; it should be a major service pack for Vista. It takes the good parts of Vista (which, despite popular opinion, were quite good but poorly presented), tweaks it, puts it in a shinier, more-useful interface. But a SP wouldn't generate any revenue for MS, hence Win7.