Windows 7 Pricing Details Announced
The long awaited Windows 7 prices announcement are here. Today, Microsoft announced the prices for Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions. The good news is that the most popular SKU edition, Home Premium, has been significantly discounted from its Vista predecessor. Unfortunately, the pricing for the higher SKUs remain the same.
Upgrade Pricing
- Windows 7 Home Premium – $119.99 – difference from vista version – $10 (8%)
- Windows 7 Professional $199.99
- Windows 7 Ultimate – $219.99 – difference from vista version – $0
Retail (Full) Pricing
- Windows 7 Home Premium – $199.99 – difference from vista version – $50 (23%)
- Windows 7 Professional – $299.99
- Windows 7 Ultimate – $319.99 – difference from vista version – $0
However, Microsoft is offering an amazing pre-order offer that is difficult to refuse. If you are a resident of the US, Canada, or Japan, you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional at half the price from June 26th till July11th (July 5th in Japan). If you’re in the UK, France, or Germany, you can get the same deal from July 15th till August 14th. You can also pre-order the upgrade editions online from retailers like Amazon and Best buy. Home Premium Upgrade will cost $49.99 ($70.00 savings) and Professional Upgrade will cost $99.99 ($100 savings).
“What if I’m getting a new PC?!” If you buy a new PC from June 26th, 2009 to January 31st, 2010, you will receive a Windows 7 Upgrade Option Coupon to receive a FREE copy of the corresponding Windows 7 version of the Windows Vista version installed on your computer. This Upgrade Program is globally, and you do not need to pay for shipping and handling. Although the majority of retailers should be offering the coupon for free, Microsoft has stated that some retailers will decide to offer it at “little” cost. Pricing for an Electronic upgrade via Windows Anytime Upgrade, has not yet been announced and hopefully will be soon.
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Is it possible that you could put the prices on in £ GBP as i am from England and am very interested in Windows 7.
Use the Windows 7 currency gadget to convert.
Here, try this…
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=currency+exchange
You can’t just convert the pricing over to sterling or euro, the pricing in europe is usaully more expensive than america
Hey! I just pulled the trigger on 2 upgrades from Best Buy. Didn’t think about it until now: is this 32 or 64-bit? The SKU listed on their website is 9382697… does anyone know? Thanks!
Like Vista, it should be both. In a worst case scenario, if there is only a 32 bit disk, Microsoft will ship out the 64 bit version upon request. My understanding though is, like later versions of Vista, there should be two DVDs….
Stephen
The Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade retail boxing were reveal
http://infogen.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/windows-7-upgrade-diseno-de-cajas/
I have an issue with MS pricing, yes the 49 and 99 upgrade prices are pretty decent.
I bought and paid for a retail version of Ultimate, which was supposed to have all the bells and whistles i wanted, however this never came to pass.
IMO MS should give the users who purchased the most expensive OS at least an Upgrade to 7 for their troubles.
Personally i dont like Vista, was it ok, i guess. I used it for awhile and went back to XP. The release was a joke, the unsupport hardware was a pain, and the bloatware was a joke. After the sp1 things seem to calm down a bit, but i never really went back to it.
I have installed and used W7 x64 on my HP DV6500T since beta and it is awesome, i would more than happily pay for the upgrade from Vista Ultimate to win7 Ultimate, but for an upgrade price, not for this full price bend you over crap MS is doing.
Overall if MS would offer the ultimate Vista users a little something in return for the fact they got nothing then hey i would be good with that.
Just pre-ordered the Home Premium upgrade with Next-Day shipping! Goodbye Vista!
So you ordered next day shipping on something that won’t ship for months? I wish my clients were as willing to toss around money….
Stephen
How will pricing affect computer prices? I plan on a completely new laptop when Windows 7 comes out and when I get the money.
Depends on how much they charge OEMs. Nobody knows this yet other than some rumors floating around that Starter’s OEM pricing will be higher than originally expected