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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."
It's this sort of news that makes the $29 price for Snow Leopard just look better and better.
Oh yeah... "Fuck me nigsausage"
Thought I'd save you the trouble.
(For those who aren't aware and in case you are curious, I have a love-stalker. For most of my more recent comments, someone under AC has been replying "fuck you nigsausage" to what I write. Someone has to really care about what I say to put that much effort into it. And attempting to hide their affection with negativity is incredibly freudian to the point of latent homosexual tendencies.)
People need to forget this "slower than XP" bullcrap, it's an old OS and it should ran fast on current rigs. Although Windows 7 in my opinion is at least as fast, and I have a relatively old rig. OS's evolve, and one part of that will be more intuitive (often better looking) UI. Initially this will probably result in slightly (with Win 7 very slightly, if at all) poorer performance, but that will disappear soon enough. Also, new OS have a lot more functionality and all of that will add up to system requirements, although in Windows 7 requirements are damn low. People hanging on to the likes of XP like their life depends on it (wonder how many company IT-professionals here will jump on this part) are slowing development, and that is never good.