Microsoft has released pricing for Windows 7

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The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219. All pricing in U.S. dollars.

Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing -- InformationWeek
 

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If you purchase OEM copies, you save substantially, the downside though is that OEM copies are unsupported by Microsoft.
 

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If you purchase OEM copies, you save substantially, the downside though is that OEM copies are unsupported by Microsoft.

I wouldn't be buying the OEM version. I need somebody to yell at.;-) Has Microsoft added a new level in the "ultimate"?
 

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I wouldn't be buying the OEM version. I need somebody to yell at.;-) Has Microsoft added a new level in the "ultimate"?

Not too sure about Ultimate, I always thought it was a rip off as the only additions to it were "active directory" support and some crappy "extras".

The home premium version of Vista has served me well, I think it cost about $120.00 when I bought it.
 

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haha. Talk about ancient, I haven't used that OS since about 94 or so.

Is it true that with Windows 3.1 you could actually hurt the feelings of the "file manager", causing a crash?...;-)
 

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Not too sure about Ultimate, I always thought it was a rip off as the only additions to it were "active directory" support and some crappy "extras".

The home premium version of Vista has served me well, I think it cost about $120.00 when I bought it.

The ability to switch languages is useful in some settings.

I like the OEM versions. I usually like to run things with the safeties off. Like my lack of a virus scanner and firewall. Manually monitoring processes is so much more enjoyable. Like some sort of computer ant farm.
 

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The ability to switch languages is useful in some settings.

I like the OEM versions. I usually like to run things with the safeties off. Like my lack of a virus scanner and firewall. Manually monitoring processes is so much more enjoyable. Like some sort of computer ant farm.

I am monolingual so the language packs don't do much for me.

I keep AVG just in case a virus gets added to a zip file, my router works well enough as a firewall. I usually have task manager open so I can restart certain processes that like to consume large amounts of memory, sidebar.exe is the main culprit, I have seen it use as much as 500mb of memory.
 

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What are people doing still using windows nowadays anyways? Haven't people found out that 5 minute boot times and the usual crash isn't what an OS is meant to do? :p
 

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What are people doing still using windows nowadays anyways? Haven't people found out that 5 minute boot times and the usual crash isn't what an OS is meant to do? :p

Funny, I have never used any operating system that takes five minutes to boot.
 

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Funny, I have never used any operating system that takes five minutes to boot.

I haven't had that problem since Windows 98. I don't think it ever took five minutes to boot but it was, on occasion, pretty slow. I am currently using XP and (knock wood), I don't have those problems.
 

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I haven't had that problem since Windows 98. I don't think it ever took five minutes to boot but it was, on occasion, pretty slow. I am currently using XP and (knock wood), I don't have those problems.

Boot time is greatly effected by the number of startup processes, drive fragmentation, device initialization etc. My pc usually boots in about 90 seconds, from BIOS Post to Windows Login.
 

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What are people doing still using windows nowadays anyways? Haven't people found out that 5 minute boot times and the usual crash isn't what an OS is meant to do? :p

What crash, Supreme? I can understand 5 minutes boot time (my computer needs that much) but I have never had a crash. Of course, my needs are simple. Word processor, spreadsheet, DOS programs and internet. But I have never had trouble with my computer, not with virus, crash etc.
 

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Back in the days of 3.1 and dial-up, you could go away and make a sandwich while waiting for the system to boot-up and get on line......maybe read the paper too.;-)

95 was a waste of time. 98 was definite improvement, kind of like 95 should have been, but it still crashed on a regular basis.

I had an OEM version of windows 2000(read pirate version)and wasn't impressed.

XP was a real step forward and from what I've read, the best OS till windows 7
 

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Boot time is greatly effected by the number of startup processes, drive fragmentation, device initialization etc. My pc usually boots in about 90 seconds, from BIOS Post to Windows Login.

My Mac boots in about 30 seconds. Windoze machines drive me nuts.
 

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My Mac boots in about 30 seconds. Windoze machines drive me nuts.

With the amount of hardware I have in the pc, the boot time doesn't bother me much. I have 4 internal hard drives, about 6 fans, blu-ray drive, hefty video card etc.

I never shut up my pc down either so the only time I really have to reboot is after a critical windows update or hardware change.
 

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When I noticed sidebar taking up enormous amounts of ram, I disabled it and never looked back.

My machine boots pretty quickly. Couldn't tell you how quickly, because usually I am not sitting there waiting for it to boot. Its less than a minute in any case. Of course, I could have it boot in 15 seconds if I didn't want to load anything. It can take a while to load a gigabyte of programs from random locations on the hard drive.

On a related note, I stopped using the hibernate feature when I noticed that the combined time of hibernating and restarting was slower than just shutting down and restarting.
 

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With the amount of hardware I have in the pc, the boot time doesn't bother me much. I have 4 internal hard drives, about 6 fans, blu-ray drive, hefty video card etc.

I never shut up my pc down either so the only time I really have to reboot is after a critical windows update or hardware change.

I'm much the same. Its just too much to shut down and turn on each day. Plus I like to run tasks in the evening after I've go to sleep so that I don't have to sit through it or wait for something when I want to use some high demand program.

It's really is amazing though how with so much technology I can manage to sit here and do nothing at all for so long. :lol: