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."

Comments

Re:Every other OS stinks

[Anonymous Coward]

Same list, but compared to Linux:

Win7 = Perfect
Vista = Excellent
XP = Almost Perfect
ME = Excellent
2000 = Excellent
NT 4 = Excellent

Re:Great startegy

[Perl-Pusher]

You assume that Windows 7 when it is released will be better. I used to fooled into believing the pre-release hype. Remember how great "Longhorn/Vista" was supposed to be? Then when released it was crap! I know someone who downgraded to XP and is happy to be rid of vista, but then turned around pre-ordered Windows 7. I can't wait to see how that works out!

Re:Every other OS stinks

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL nerd with baby penis? Is that you?

How exactly is 7 better?

[Anonymous Coward]

I personally like vista and I am not sure why people hate it so much other than since it seems to the cool thing to do. I am using windows 7 RC on one of my computers right now and it seems to be the same OS as vista with some minor improvements. So I guess the cool thing to do now is to love 7.

Re:Just 7?

[Anonymous Coward]

"As Microsoft strives to migrate their core technologies from the desktop onto the Web, so too is their propaganda machine migrating from the established press to the informal social web. Microsoft shills are invading social web sites everywhere - in forums, discussion groups, comments to news items, edits to Wikipedia, manipulation of search engines, comments to blogs - posing as innocent participants to promote their agenda and counter wide spread complaints about their shady marketing practises. Even in the comments section of blogs by Microsoft employees on their own corporate site they employ sock puppets to say the things the author felt inappropriate to say directly. They race to place their shill postings at the top spot in the comments section of news and blogs, or perhaps they are given advance notice enabling them to do this where they are a sponsor.

The evidence is here on Slashdot for all to see, without embellishments from me. What I say here is amounts to only a digest of hundreds of postings by others. A careful investigator can see for himself the evolution of discussions on Microsoft related issues, especially those accusing them of their usual hard ball tactics. As one reads from Slashdot's historical record on through to recent times, the evolution of Microsoft's efforts to pervert Slashdot's discussions becomes readily apparent. Microsoft's ambition is to twist internet discussions around a full 180 degrees until these discussions become a platform for propaganda from Microsoft's "Ministry of Truth". A study of the comments of the shills posted here can be cross-correlated with postings on other sites. Their pattern of saturating a discussion with shill postings, and the repeating of mindless memes becomes obvious. Their harassment, ridicule, and suppression of criticisms is designed to intimidated those who would speak out against them. They seek to establish and enforce a discipline of giving Microsoft "fair treatment" and their propaganda the same consideration and respect a real person would deserve.

In the process they are destroying Slashdot as we know it. This insidious attack on the infrastructure we rely upon to form our opinions in a complex world has both a direct and an inhibitory effect on free speech as a side effect.

We must stop this while it is in its infancy. Once it fully established, it will become much more difficult to root out, and other ruthless corporations, organizations, and even governments will want to emulate the success of Microsoft's campaign. This is the nightmare vision of the end of the social internet as we know it."

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".

and

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.