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Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price
An anonymous reader writes "In the UK, a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is going to cost less than half the price Americans will have to pay, and in fact less than Americans have to pay just for the upgrade-only edition. Full details and prices were published in an article on CNet, in which it was concluded that, at least for the time being, Microsoft is honoring the prices it set for the now-discontinued European version of Win7, which did not contain Internet Explorer 8 and was only available as a full-install edition."
$29 is for an upgrade from Leopard. Apparently you cannot upgrade straight from Tiger, and it's unlikely to work standalone if that's your idea.
According to amazon.co.uk, since I am running XP, I could get a vista home premium upgrade for £60, and they will throw in a full windows 7 home premium free..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84366313_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000321063&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=special-product-offers-3&pf_rd_r=1N0XDYG13SRJD90788PR&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=470374053&pf_rd_i=B0013O54P8
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Vista sp2 should be called Vista sp2. It's out, it's free, go download it and patch your heart out.
MS, like many American companies, are fleecing the country.
GB prices for tech are usually close to the same number of pounds as dollars things have eased a bit recently, here are two random examples:
* New Apple iPod Touch 8GB 2nd Generation (amazon UK), £152 = $250
* ditto (amazon US), $215 -> UK one is only 16% more
* Dell M17X laptop (UK), £1699 = $2815
* ditto (US), $1799 -> saving $1000 by purchasing in the US vs in the UK where it is 56% more expensive
Last year it was about $2 = £1; http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=GBPUSD
You were saying ...? This would make it even more extraordinary for Win 7 to be cheaper here, but when I look ...
* Win 7 ultimate (amazon UK), £170 = $280
* ditto (amazon US), $220 -> so only $60 / 27% more and the UK price is a "discounted" one from an RRP (recommended price) of £230
Um?
There's a straight upgrade from Tiger if you have intel machine
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
Uh, no. You can buy a 129$ Snow Leopard for Intel Macs that pre-date Leopard.
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$29 is for an upgrade from Leopard. Apparently you cannot upgrade straight from Tiger, and it's unlikely to work standalone if that's your idea.
There's a straight upgrade from Tiger if you have intel machine
And it will cost $169 (the same price as previous Box Sets). A great deal, but it's not the $29 OS-only option that Leopard users get.
From Apple's OS X specs page:
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set (when available), which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife '09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork '09,
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Where's the 'ANY' key? I see Esk, Kitarl, and Pig-Up...
I think you meant in the United States
Nope. America is an unambiguous description of The United States of America. Just like the United States of Mexico are called "Mexico" and no one is ever confused, the same works for the US. If someone is referring to the continent, the correct uses are "North America" or "South America" or "the Americas" but never plain "America." As such, the only people claiming confusion are those that understand what's being said and are just lying when they say there is confusion. Clearly, you are in that category as well, as you feign confusion, then indicate that you knew what he meant the whole time. When you exclude lying assholes, there are exactly zero people in the world that think "America", in the absence of any other information, refers to anything other than The United States of America, yourself included.
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As a Canadian I can guarantee to you that nobody born here calls it 'aluminium.'
Except, according to the Oxford dictionary, realize is more correct (because of its Greek origins). The use of -ise instead of -ize is a recent British innovation (recent in the sense of the last century or so) ... mainly so people don't misspell analyse the way we do (which is not of Greek origin). -ize is one of the rare cases where the North American spelling is actually closer to traditional, "correct" English than the UK -ise ... in stark contrast to almost every other difference between the two ("tire" vs. "tyre", "color" vs. "colour", "jewelry" vs. "jewellery") where the UK spelling is more correct and often more nuanced.
Not that it matters ... I can't spell on either side of the pond.
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For just about every other piece of software on the planet, the UK pays much more and often twice as much as the US does. Adobe are one of the worst in this respect but previous MS operating systems have been *far* cheaper in the US than here.
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Unless you're in Quebec. It's "aluminium" in French.
English is not this
The word "American" is not usually used in Spanish,
So, because they don't use it, it's not an issue. And if they did use it, they would never use the word "american" but "americano," so again, I'm not wrong. I guess I could have put in there that language rules for English only apply to the English speaking people. But then, people with a pet peeve never listen to logic anyway. They don't use "American" in Spanish because it's an English word. Though there is a Spanish word that looks the same doesn't mean it means the same. There are distinctions in translation where some meanings are exclused and others are included. But then ignorant asses wouldn't ever thinkg of that.
A common word for a person from the United States is "norte americano". This literally means "North American".
So, they call personas de los estados unidos "north americans" and you are claiming that's less ambiguous? For those non-spanish speakers, it would seem much more ambiguous than "Americans." North Americans consist of many countries, including all the Caribbean and Central America. But, since you think that North Americans is better than Americans for people from America, despite the fact that no one else other than you makes that distinction in English, I guess there is no reason to continue this discussion. You've obviously learned your Spanish from a box and are more well-versed in what an American is than everyone else. Or it could be that the distinction in English of "American" and "the Americas" doesn't exist in all other languages, so they will distinguish them in other ways.
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