Comments on: What PC makers are paying for Windows 7

Microsoft will price the pro version of Windows 7 the same as with Vista. The Home Premium version will cost less than Vista, but more than Vista Basic.

[MacSnob]

M$ needs to give Win7 to every one who has suffered with Vista for the past two years a free or very low cost upgrade regardless of version. Apple is giving the upgrade to their superb OSX away for $29. It would provide a whole lot of good will if M$ did the same. But I guess M$ is an aloof, arrogant, pompous, greedy, lying, game playing company. No wonder Apples $hare$ are up there and M$ are not. M$ has lost credibility with me years ago. I only continue to use it because it is the only thing that runs on PC's besides Linix and variants there of for which there are limited applications and you need to be more tech savy than with window$. M$ is slipping technologically. They never were innovative because Windows is a rip off of Apple's and a defunct Company's (Visio) graphical interface product which was demonstrated in 1983. M$ told the world then that they had something much better (which they did not) called Window$ and that it would take the world by storm. Well Window$ 1.0 ship date slipped and slipped and slipped until it was over two years late to market. Even their old DOS was a rip off of someone elses product. M$ has failed to innovate and just ripped off to get where they are. Their first foray into the software business with the arrival of the MTIS Altair was ripping off Dartmouth Basic and translating the code to run on the 8088 chip. They said they had a BASIC for that machine when they contacted MITS when in reality they did not.

[shellcodes_coder]

not every one because not all use outdated hardware to run the latest OS. We have Vista installed in all the computers and never had to face any problems with it and with SP2, it's even more stable. Try x64 version of Vista, it's faster and more stable than x86 version. By the way Windows 7 pre-orders claim Amazon's top sales spots :)

[One-Eared Gundark]

I get pretty tired of sifting through the irrelevant comments of Mac and Linux users. The article does not mention Mac, Apple, or Linux one single time, yet the trolls come out and flame anyone who has not "seen the light" and rid themselves of everything "Micro$oft".

Now, let me step down from my soap-box and get back on topic: Eliminating the "basic" version was a good idea. It was too stripped down and left some consumers feeling like they got ripped off. (always read the fine print)

The prices - I feel - are still too high. In my perfect world, full-versions would be at the current price level of the upgrades, while upgrades would permanently carry the temporary pre-order price.

I've pre-ordered a couple Windows 7 Pro upgrades, finding that the $99.99 upgrade price was right on the mark. Keeping prices right around $100 would be ideal.

[Greybeard6005]

I agree with you on the Windows basic version - that was a horrible idea. Also, I agree w/ you partially from the standpoint of a new user buying a full, retail version, $100 seems fair. But that doesn't begin to account for the upgrade folks, nor the people who experienced the fraud of Vista Ultimate. There needs to be restitution for the injury, and Microsoft's current pricing schema does not meet the mark.

[npkgardens]

What I would like to see is a steep upgrade discount for people that bought retail versions of Vista, since it appears that we have mainly served as a debugging service for Windows 7 development.

[Peter-C]

Windows 7 seems like, this is coming form me testing the Bests versions of course, that it will be a stable, faster Operating System. However, like most OS's, this OS will have its glitches and bugs that will need correcting when it first comes out. I believe that Windows 7 will be successful if it sticks true to its word about being as fast and efficient as they claim (and as I have seen it) to be.

[Greybeard6005]

For those who read this article in hopes of finding pricing information, try this article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134881

[whiplash55]

RC has worked flawlessly for me I jumped on Micro Center's deal $39 and $89 respectivly.

[mssoot]

The title of this article is shameless false advertising. Not even speculation or an educated quess about what it actually is. This sucks