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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-in-the-uk-anyway dept.

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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  1. Every other OS stinks by mprindle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Someone I was talking to the other day made a good point. Every other OS Microsoft has put out in the last 10 - 15 years or so has sucked.

    Win7 = TBD - Looking good as of now
    Vista = Horrible
    XP = Pretty Good
    ME = Rancid
    2000 = Not Bad
    NT 4 = Not Bad, but severely limited

  2. Re:Long time lurker... by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know, if you log in, you can set your preferences up so that you never ever see a Microsoft article....

    Hmm looks like maybe I stand corrected... it why is this article in the "Technology" section when it is very obviously a Microsoft article?

    --
    Here's to the crazy ones
  3. It is just Vista SP X by Clarious · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... and people are acting crazy. When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it, so I don't understand what with the Windows 7 hype. From what I have heard, it is just Vista with the retarded parts removed.

    But I have no reason to care about Windows world anymore, switched to Linux half a year ago and now I am a happy Linux user :) There may never be an year of Linux or its market will never go past 10%, but I can use it comfortably now, so it is fine with me.

    1. Re:It is just Vista SP X by Runaway1956 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it"

      Obviously, you ran Vista on a recent high powered machine, with super graphics. Unfortunately, as part of the marketing hype, Vista was sold on new machines that were seriously underpowered, with crumby onboard graphics. So, even on expensive new machines, businesses and consumers found that Vista sucked. Win7, however, rocks along nicely on almost any machine with a CPU over 1 Ghz. You may or may not be able to use the Aero features, but it runs stable, and performance is decent.

      I have found that Vista sucked even harder in virtual machines - but Win7 is perfectly happy inside a virtual machine.

      I just don't know how else to spell it out. Vista was a terribly expensive mistake, and in today's economy, few people or businesses can afford expensive mistakes.

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      "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
  4. Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make a good product and people might actually be willing to give you money for it

    Imagine a world where businesses actually made their products better to get sales rather than skimming quality to reduce margins for more profit

  5. Re:Great startegy by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ah, but may I mention that this time you don't need to be fooled by believing pre-release hype. You could have tried the beta and you can try the RC. I'm running the RC at home. I like it. If/when/whatever I buy Win 7 it won't be because of hype. It will be because I've run the RC for ~6 months and have found it to work well.

    I hope that's not considered "hype."