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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."
Why do you have such a high proportion of Microsoft (Windows, Xbox, Zune (really, Zune?)) to non Microsoft posts?
Well, the sign's right there every time he looks up from his desk, so it's
natural that he's often thinking about it.
the only reason windows 7 looks so good is because vista was just that bad....
If Windows 7 success is judged by how cheaply they sell it for, then how many more people would want to try it if they gave it away for free?
... Because if any company released a truly desirable product people would be willing to pay a premium to own that product. Yet Microsoft & Amazon are trying to claim success by reducing its price... (talk about lies, damned lies and PR)).
(Also surely this Microsoft & Amazon PR stunt is actually the opposite of success?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
This isn't a troll. Please read before you moderate.
I swear, the company can do nothing right for some people
Did they ever fix the very long list of performance problems which were crammed into Vista and later? Last I saw Vista's performance was still MUCH slower than XP for most tasks. Early tests against pre-release Win 7 (yes, I know...prelease) looked like more of the same Vista performance with only slight performance tweaks here and there. And keep in mind, for most tasks, XP is still slower than a descent Linux distro.
So who wants to upgrade to find they are running TONS slower than they could with Linux or noteworthily slower than XP, only now have DRM and bothersome security dialogs all over the place?
Seriously, with Windows pulling so much legacy crap + incompatibilities + forced emulation for many legacy applications + device driver compatibility issues + device driver shortages + performance problems + large memory overhead + built in DRM restrictions, aside from business, why does anyone care about Win 7 when XP is already better by almost every measure?
Newer isn't always better; a fact MS has consistently proved over the last half decade or so.