Star Two More Days to Preorder Windows 7 from Amazon
Linked by David Adams on Thu 9th Jul 2009 19:49 UTC
Windows Windows 7 Home and Professional upgrades are 50+% off at Amazon.com until July 11. That's $49.99 for home and $99.99 for Professional. Ultimate is not discounted, at $219.99. If you buy using this link, OSNews earns an 8% commission on the sale.
E-mail Print r 1   11 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/gtp
Thread beginning with comment 372670
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Nah, too expensive for me
by daedliusswartz on Thu 9th Jul 2009 21:12 UTC in reply to "Nah, too expensive for me"
daedliusswartz
Member since:
2007-05-28

It's worth paying for. Asking to be paid for using it is somewhat absurd.

Edited 2009-07-09 21:12 UTC

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1

darknexus Member since:
2008-07-15

It's worth paying for.


Hmm, well maybe it's worth paying for if you're using Vista at the moment. Can't get much worse than Vista, and I'll give that much to 7 at least, it is better.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 3

jack_perry Member since:
2005-07-06

It's worth paying for. Asking to be paid for using it is somewhat absurd.

Not so sure about that. I recently had the opportunity to re-install Vista from a recovery disk. It took an enormously long time, during which I passed through several black screens devoid of information. The computer sat there, with a black screen, for at least 20-30 seconds, if not 2-3 minutes or longer, giving no hint that it was doing anything.

Never mind a Windows Vista update, which involves the interminable wait for "Installing update xx of yy." I'd have reset the computer during one of those if a Google search hadn't warned me against it. I came across so many web pages asking for help with these interminable udpates, that I realized it's standard procedure for a Windows re-install.

People pay to be treated like this? Don't get me wrong: these things happen in Linux, too--but it isn't standard procedure, and I don't pay for it.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 4

RE[2]: Nah, too expensive for me
by lemur2 on Fri 10th Jul 2009 06:47 in reply to "RE: Nah, too expensive for me"
lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

It's worth paying for.


How so?

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009070900835RVMSAP

http://www.flexense.com/resources/file_systems_performance_comparis...

Save your money and get better performance by paying nothing.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1