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Hey, PCs: Will you upgrade to Windows 7?

June 26, 2009

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. Tags: microsoft, pc, poll, windows7.

windows7 With much anticipation from nerds like myself, Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, is due to be officially launched on October 22, 2009. To sweeten the deal, Microsoft is also offering a 50% discount for pre-orders!.

Until July 11, people running Windows XP or Vista can pre-order upgrades to the home version of Windows 7 at $64.99 instead of $129.95 and the professional version for $124.99 instead of $279.95 “while quantities last.”

With sweet new features and an improved user interface, I have to admit I’m tempted to jump on this and pre-order.

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June 26, 2009 at 9:40 pm Andrew Smith

As a Mac user I'm upgrading.
June 26, 2009 at 9:44 pm Shey, Jamaican of FF

To Windows 7? Why not Snow Lepoard?
June 26, 2009 at 9:45 pm Morton Fox

No, I'll wait until I have to buy a new computer anyway and Windows 7 probably come bundled with it.
June 26, 2009 at 9:45 pm Joey Gibson

I'm going to make my company upgrade my laptop from the Vista abomination it currently has on it. As for personal stuff, I can't see myself buying Windows 7, since I'm a Mac home.
June 26, 2009 at 9:46 pm Shey, Jamaican of FF

@Joey How did you even convince them to install Vista? (Not that I'm a Vista-hater, I just don't see the business case for it)
June 26, 2009 at 9:49 pm Christopher A Carr

Waiting to get a new comp doesn't make nearly as much sense moving from Vista to Win7 as it did from XP to Vista, as Win7 is sooo much better than Vista, and runs great on machines that choke on Vista.
June 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm Joe Silence (circumspect)

no. after Vista, MS has permanently lost me. i'll use XP Pro until it won't cut it anymore and then move to linux full-time. hopefully there will be more music production apps for it by then.
June 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Hell Yes! Netbooks will be happy!
June 26, 2009 at 9:53 pm Adrian

Already there. I haven't booted into XP since I loaded the RC. Smooth sailing so far.
June 26, 2009 at 9:53 pm Christopher A Carr

Dead: Win7 is light, clean and stable; it's worth giving a chance -- and I've used Linux almost exclusively for the last couple years.
June 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm Roger Benningfield

Already upgraded, and quite fond of it.
June 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm Joe Silence (circumspect)

how is it on older hardware, tho?
June 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm Joe Silence (circumspect)

not to mention, i also run alot of "legacy" applications.
June 26, 2009 at 9:56 pm joey

I will. We never upgraded to Vista but we're running the Win 7 RC and it's fantastic.
June 26, 2009 at 9:56 pm Christopher A Carr

Runs great on my 5 year old P4 box with fx5500 graphics and 2 gigs of RAM. And it has an "XP Mode" for "legacy" apps.
June 26, 2009 at 9:59 pm Christopher A Carr

Also runs like a champ on my Lenovo s10 netbook with 1 gig of RAM and a 1.7ghz Atom.
June 26, 2009 at 10:03 pm Tyson Key

Nope
June 26, 2009 at 10:05 pm Akiva Moskovitz

Already have.
June 26, 2009 at 10:06 pm Joey Gibson

@Shey, the laptop came with Vista on it.
June 26, 2009 at 10:06 pm Jennifer Dittrich

Maybe. I'm not liking the price-point.
June 26, 2009 at 10:06 pm Rodfather

I'm going milk RC1 until it expires
June 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm Andrew Smith

@Shey I'll be updating to Snow Leopard and Win7 to dual boot. I still occasionally do some Visual Studio / SQL stuff, have a Zune and some games.
June 26, 2009 at 10:16 pm Christopher A Carr

Win7/Linux Mint 7/Snow Leo tri-boot would be sweet.
June 26, 2009 at 10:16 pm Richard Lawler

I haven't had significant problems with vista, but I'm probably going to put 7 on all my computers.
June 26, 2009 at 10:21 pm Melanie Reed

I avoided the VISTA mess and I may be milking XP until it expires then go to Win 7. I still have 2002 and 2005 projects in VS/SQL Server 2005 running sbs.
June 26, 2009 at 10:38 pm Arlan Koizumi

I'll most likely upgrade to Windows 7 for my PC and also on my Boot Camp partition.
June 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm John Ford

I preordered my windows 7 today.
June 26, 2009 at 11:09 pm Leo Laporte

Pre-ordered three copies on Amazon. That's all they'd let me get.
June 26, 2009 at 11:12 pm Mike Lewis

My Dad has preordered already, he has Vista. I will preorder when I upgrade. Still yet to try the beta though.
June 26, 2009 at 11:17 pm Bill Kinney

pre-ordered it on amazon today. I love RC1.
June 26, 2009 at 11:21 pm ronin

Sure why not, couldn't be any worse than what's come before it. ;-p
June 26, 2009 at 11:29 pm TobiasVerhoog.com

I skipped vista and went straight from XP to Win7 rc. Love it.
June 26, 2009 at 11:46 pm Shey, Jamaican of FF

I think I'm gonna hold out for the Ultimate edition. Anyone know if the Pro edition will have Media Center?
June 26, 2009 at 11:49 pm Dave "Freedom 35"

For sure!
June 27, 2009 at 12:06 am Geoff Schultz

Running RC1 already, so yes.

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