Windows 7 set to break sales records (Win 7 more popular than final Harry Potter book)

The Times, UK ^ | October 22, 2009 | DSGi,

[Sir Clancelot]

My wife has Vista, has spent about $400 trying to get it to work well. For me, I went Mac about two years ago, and you know what they say “Once you go Mac, you never go back”.

[Slump Tester]

I got mine early at Newegg - a 3 user "family" upgrade pack of Home Premium (with installs for both 32 and 64 bit) for $149 with free shipping! (But that deals over with now : (

The "upgrade" requires a fresh install when you go from XP, but Microsoft had a nice little free program that grabs your profile and anything else you want it to and saves it in a file on a jump drive, then puts it all back where it needs to go on the new install.

Overall, it was the most painless upgrade I've ever done. I'm really liking it. My system really smokes now with the 64 bit version!

I have't read past your reply yet, but I'll bet there will be someone talking about how a free version of Ubuntu is just as good. (Well Ubuntu WILL run on a 386 with 64Mb of memory!)

[SmokingJoe]

You can’t do a direct upgrade from XP to Win 7. It has to be a “costum” install, meaning it will wipe out XP and do a clean install of Win 7. So you will have to save your data before you install, plus re-install your apps and data after installing Win 7.

[ShadowAce]

[Paladin2]

Great business plan:

Produce crap.

Produce solution to previous Crap.

Success!!!!

Profit!!!!

[swatbuznik]

I like Vista, too. I have had NO problems with it. Unlike XP, and I was very resistant to switching at the time.

[proudofthesouth]

Well I went out and purchased a new HP computer with Windows 7 on it today and so far compared to Vista I LOVE Windows 7!

[SmokingJoe]

If that were all that it takes to make money, why are you not as rich as Bill Gates is?

[nascarnation]

It’s not like going out to buy a Toyota if you’re unhappy with your Chevy.

The Toyota in this case (Apple) would cost twice as much.

I still think there’s an opening for a 3rd brand of consumer OS. Perhaps that’s where Google is heading? Of course that won’t fly on FR because they’re liberals........sigh.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I bought a new ASUS PC in July and as a term of the sale, they are supposed to send me Win 7.

It better get here soon because, Vista sucks.

[Newtoidaho]

In a nutshell, what is it about 7 that makes it better?

[Paladin2]

My dad wasn’t a lawyer and I’m quite happy giving my IP away or selling it cheap.

[PAR35]

Wow, $119. for the home Windows 7 Upgrade.

Or for about 3 times that, you'll be able to get a decent new computer in January with it already installed.

[blastdad51]

Windows95 with a fancy paint job.

[MarkL]

The online retailer Amazon said that it was the “biggest grossing pre-order product of all time”, having overtaken the likes of Harry Potter

That may have something to do with the fact that "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows" cost in the neighborhood of $20 while Windows 7 is in the range (depending on the version) of $120 to $300!

So a single copy of the Windows 7 Premium Home upgrade costs the same as 5 copies of HP & TDH.

Mark

[SmokingJoe]

Preorders for Windows 7 were initially priced by Microsoft at just $50, which is when most people did their pre-orders, so you are wrong.
Not to mention, big retailing conglomerate, DSGi, have sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks in pre-orders alone, than Vista units they sold in its first year. No matter how you look at it, Windows 7 is going to be huge.

[cabojoe]

Congratulations on the new computer!

[moehoward]

So did they completely knock-off Apple’s 10.5 or just part of it?

[SmokingJoe]

“So did they completely knock-off Apple’s 10.5 or just part of it?”

Naaaah.
They just knocked off you head, and put chaff inside your coconot, then put it back on, that's all.

[catnipman]

Even Steve Ballmer recently admitted Windows 7 is just Vista with some fixes.

Same 'ol MS hype. No one ever seems to learn. MS has figured out they can release a "new" OS every 3 years or so since the public seems to take that long to forget the last time MS shafted them.

There's a great new Apple ad to that effect here:

Apple Ad: Broken Promises