Windows 7 Prices Announced

[pgh13]

The standard retail pricing for Windows 7 will be £149.99 for Home Premium, £219.99 for Professional and £229.99 for Ultimate. The notional prices for the unobtainable upgrades for existing Windows owners are £79.99, £189.99 and £199.99 respectively.

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Scary :-downt

 

[HB13DISH]

In their dreams.
But there are always suckers who would fall for it.

 

[Llew]

A perfect excuse to migrate to Linux.

The latest Linux Mint Gloria has everything I need. Plenty of applications that are either pre-installed or can be downloaded with the package manager. Oh, and the new kernel now has the driver for my Nova HD pci card

For anyone interested, here's a User Guide.

Llew

 

[pgh13]

I've dabbled with Mint before but maybe calls for a serious look

 

[Topper]

The standard retail pricing for Windows 7 will be £149.99 for Home Premium, £219.99 for Professional and £229.99 for Ultimate. The notional prices for the unobtainable upgrades for existing Windows owners are £79.99, £189.99 and £199.99 respectively.

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Not a prayer Microsoft, not a prayer

 

[compufunk]

The latest Linux Mint Gloria has everything I need. Plenty of applications that are either pre-installed or can be downloaded with the package manager. Oh, and the new kernel now has the driver for my Nova HD pci card

I hadn't tried mint till now, first impressions. Its an attractive interface and its a Debian based distribution so thats good.

I'll try it out for a while to see how it compares with Kubuntu.

 

[gerryl]

here we go again...MS Rip off...OS should be free!...guess this will flop at that price...O-zzz

 

[compufunk]

Some how Mint went under my radar till Llew pointed it out.

I've been messing around with it on and off for a few months now. Its definitely the best debian based out of the box OS ive seen so far. Ubuntu/Kubuntu being the biggest rivals.

I'm running Gloria at the minute. After installation, everything seems to work without intervention. It plays TS files recorded from the Dreambox, most codecs seem to be pre installed. A flash player is already installed, meaning you can youtube and what not. Your word/excel/etc docs open in Open Office without installing anything,. If you have a decent Graphics card, you can avail of some fancy features that go well beyond Vistas capabilities.......the list goes on.

Its a very easy interface to navigate. I unleashed my technically challenged female companion on it, and she seemed to be able to figure it out quite easily.

Best of all, being debian based, you have access to the 1000s of freely available apps in the Debian/Ubuntu package repositories.

 

[portly]

Should have got in early chaps, i got home prem for 49.99 pre order:-HoHo much better than the other op systems:-thumbup