Amazon preps for Windows 7 launch-day delivery
Amazon.com will offer release-date delivery on Windows 7 software and preorders on Windows 7 PCs, the online retailer announced on Monday.
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According to Amazon, customers who preorder Windows 7 will receive the operating system on October 22, its launch day. The company is also offering more than 250 computers from HP, Dell, Acer, and other PC vendors that come preinstalled with Windows 7. Those computers are available for preorder on the site.
Amazon followed its announcement with details surrounding Windows 7's success so far. Windows 7 was a bestseller on Amazon for two weeks following its original preorder availability earlier this year, according to the company. Amazon also said that, so far, Windows 7 has attracted more orders than both Windows Vista and Windows XP combined at the same point in their availability.
A key reason why Windows 7 was so attractive to buyers during that period was likely the operating system's steeply discounted pricing. Starting in June, Windows 7 Home Premium was available for $49, a whopping $70 less than its retail price of $119. Windows 7 Professional was on sale for $99, half of its suggested price.
Now that the program has expired, Amazon is currently offering Windows 7 versions for preorder at their suggested prices.
Updated at 1:37 p.m. PDT to include information on PC preorders.
Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
Start-up and shutdown - better, but still way too long.
Waking up - Seems more like starting up to me. May have something to do with the laptop I'm using.
Control panels - The simple layout literally hides everything you are looking for. I just think they should be able to come up with a much more intuitive way of organizing it all.
Upgrading from XP - This is absolutely inexcusable. The number of people out there that are going to be comfortable with backing up, formatting, installing and restoring all their data is not going to be very good. But this is how I make my living, so I guess I shouldn't complain! But really, this is a BIG problem.
That's all I have for now. Only one week of testing though. Like I said, it is the least f*** up version of Windows so far.
Hope you are right and their estimate wrong.
- by mistasandman October 19, 2009 12:52 PM PDT
- I'm already using the W7 Sig. Edition... and I really like it. Pretty soon every pc will be running Windows 7.
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- by WinNoMo October 19, 2009 1:09 PM PDT
- You are delusional. It will have a 50% adoption rate at best after the first two years.
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- by kewell82 October 19, 2009 1:51 PM PDT
- 50%, sweet that is 40% more than Macs.
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