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Probably one of the reasons why MSFT shot up by 5% on Friday, despite the Dow falling by 1%. Going to be interesting to get the first 3 months Win 7 sales figures, when MSFT's fiscal Q2 earnings report come out in January.
1 posted on 10/24/2009 3:43:53 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Oh Thank Heaven, for Windows 7!


2 posted on 10/24/2009 3:45:44 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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Sales of 7 have been good because Vista was such a disaster. MSFT should pray that 7 is truly better than Vista. Time will tell.


3 posted on 10/24/2009 3:45:58 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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Wow!

It’s almost like the frenzy with Windows95, except people aren’t waiting in line at stores at 12am.


4 posted on 10/24/2009 3:50:21 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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Wow, $119. for the home Windows 7 Upgrade. I want it but I will wait a while to see if there are problems.


6 posted on 10/24/2009 3:51:36 PM PDT by Dustbunny ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. " Ronald Reagan)
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There's a sucker born every day.

Ah, yes. Indeed it is so.

10 posted on 10/24/2009 3:57:27 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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Win 7 more popular than Barry Obama
what will the media do now... Oh My....LOL
14 posted on 10/24/2009 4:01:31 PM PDT by Gone_Postal ("Men who say it cannot be done, should not interupt those doing it.")
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I installed three copies on my three home computers and it went perfectly. Now upgraded. I must say that I never had that much of an issue with Vista but I wanted to keep current. It will probably be a huge success although it will have to be adapted to the large number of netbooks on the market. Most of these come with XP and this is not a direct upgrade.


15 posted on 10/24/2009 4:02:56 PM PDT by RichardW
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24 posted on 10/24/2009 4:25:00 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Windows95 with a fancy paint job.


34 posted on 10/24/2009 6:18:39 PM PDT by blastdad51 (Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
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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

35 posted on 10/24/2009 7:12:17 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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So did they completely knock-off Apple’s 10.5 or just part of it?


38 posted on 10/24/2009 7:37:14 PM PDT by moehoward
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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

40 posted on 10/24/2009 7:44:39 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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No surprise. Harry Potter didn’t offer hope of escaping from the agony of Vista...


60 posted on 10/24/2009 10:57:27 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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The real reason why MSFT shot up by 5% on Friday


66 posted on 10/25/2009 7:29:17 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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There's no explaining human nature.
Windows 7 is Vista with a gazillion$ of propaganda behind it, and paid for reviewers.

When independent testers get access to the for-sale version, they will probably confirm that the DRM overhead and the hardware-disabling nanny is still very much there.

Who needs that?

69 posted on 10/25/2009 10:50:06 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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What is all this yip-yip-yapping over what amounts to yet another expensive service back for Windows 3.1?

No thanks, I'll pass on all this hoopla and stick with my trusty Windows 3.1. It's served me pretty well over the past 17 years, thank you very much. And it runs just find on 2048KB of RAM (2 MB) - who the heck could possibly need more?

It doesn't even suck up a lot of space on my hard drive, despite all the bells and whistles, I still have over 33MB of free hard disk space for other stuff - like my Leisure Suit Larry videogame.

And if anything goes wrong, I can quickly do a clean re-install as Windows 3.1 fits easily on just seven floppies (that I keep in an old shoebox just in case).

Hell, Windows 3.1 has even outlasted my Ross Perot yard sign and my Garth Brooks audiotapes!

92 posted on 10/26/2009 2:25:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 5 days away from outliving Laura Branigan)
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By the way it works just fine.....

I took a dead computer of mine it and had it installed on it.

Big Difference.


94 posted on 10/26/2009 5:31:56 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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Uh Ohh,

That's going to leave a mark.....All you MS haters and Liberal koolaid drinking Mac cultists are going to have trouble sleeping.

Of course Rush uses Mac, but I think he should go into one of their stores and see where they have their political heads firmly rooted.

And looking at actual statistics, PC’s still outnumber Mac by more than 10 to one, for a good reason.

102 posted on 10/26/2009 6:21:41 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
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I installed it, had issues with the network printer and the sound not working right away, had to seek out the drivers for those, but after that, so far so good.


103 posted on 10/26/2009 6:24:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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W7 is a welcome relief! I’ve been using XP but a few advanced features were missing, like extending the boot volume and mirrored volumes. It is also much, much faster.


112 posted on 10/26/2009 1:18:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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