Comments on: Windows 7 – The right price

By: Marybeth McClellan

Marybeth McClellan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:01:45 +0000

windows Vista is the Edsel of Microsoft.By thier own admission with the information about windowws 7.They should give us a reduced upgrade.

By: Nicolas Auvillain

Nicolas Auvillain — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:34:36 +0000

I have been having trouble with Vista from day 1. I do tech support in my job, so I am aware of all the updates, antivirus and other precautions to ensure that everything is working as it should. After much trouble and a LOT of time, some things aren’t fixed. Shutting down my computer fails every time and I have to wait 1 minute to get another screen which prompts me to force the shutdown, and I cannot see the file extensions in the explorer, even after having unchecked “hide extensions for known file types’.
Microsoft should provide the upgrade to Windows 7 for free – I would consider that a fair move.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:36:58 +0000

Microsoft just loves to give apple more things to make commercials abut.
3 apps may be plenty for current netbooks but by early next year more powerful netbooks will be out and people will just get the linux verson and either use as is or install windows XP on them.

Windows 7 is so great why is MS going to shoot it down with their dumb multiple versions again. If this happens then Apple wins.

By: Urlreviews

Urlreviews — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:54:24 +0000

I don’t think anyone is ever going to be 100% satisfied with anything Microsoft, but I AM going to pay the price wor win7 simply because I love it already and I am not the type who wants to deal with the hazzle of a pirated OS.

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windows 7 starter upgrade free cost netbook | The Tech News Blog — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:38:16 +0000

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By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:30:38 +0000

I payed £264 for vista ultimate 64bit. Whilst i have had no major issues regarding anything that has been mentioned here, I agree that windows 7 should be a free upgrade for us vista ultimate users be it in a major service pack. I dont want to be left out cold.

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windows 7 upgrade windows xp windows vista | The Tech News Blog — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:15:46 +0000

[...] Windows Vista users will be able to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 in the usual way; as the OS is pretty-much the same. This, of course, is prompting many people [...]

By: Bedrich

Bedrich — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:13:30 +0000

I Hope that Vista Ultimate users get a discount for their paying more for their windows version…

By: enjerth

enjerth — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:14:11 +0000

So Microsoft did everything they possibly could to shove Vista down my throat. I finally ended up with Vista a month ago when I bought a new laptop. If I had the choice, I would have gone with an XP loaded laptop. But, alas, I didn’t have the choice.

Since Windows 7 is basically what Vista should have been, why should I pay for an upgrade? Quite frankly, it upsets me even more that Microsoft’s solution to Vista’s problems is not a Vista update, but to rush a new release. I already have the damn OS you (Microsoft) shoved down my throat, but you won’t fix it now that I have it? What kind of price tag are you going to put on the Vista patch that should have been, as you dangle it in front of my nose?

Microsoft has a public relations problem here. I bet they don’t even care. They’re too big to be concerned. We’ll all come around in the end, anyways, because we have to use their software.

I wonder how well Linux will run on my new laptop.

By: Douglas E Ballard

Douglas E Ballard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:56:55 +0000

I played with Windows 7 BETA today for a couple of hours on an Intel P4 with one gig of RAM. I was impressed, both with how fast it was and the ease with whick it installed and recognized all my hardware (except the modem). There are a couple of fancy visual effects which are nice (auto enlarging a window, the task bar preview of open programs, being able to peek at your dekstop with apps open) but the main thing that struck me was the speed. Granted I don’t have a lot of apps installed but what I saw “out of the box” was impressive. I’ve been using VISTA since the BETA days without much complaint . . . biggest pain was the UAC settings which I have disabled.