Win 7 Pricing and availability - Page 3

panther063 · **3rd July 2009, 03:20 PM**

Us suckers in Australia cannot access the discounted pre-release version of w7, it is not available here and we cannot preorder from the States or UK. Instead we have to purchase an oem (full price) version of vista and wait for the suppossed (free?) upgrade. And here i was hoping to bypass vista altogether.

pantonious · **3rd July 2009, 04:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by panther063

Instead we have to purchase an oem (full price) version of vista and wait for the suppossed (free?) upgrade. And here i was hoping to bypass vista altogether.

OEM is not the 'full' price...Retail is.

and yes, you will recieve a full upgrade if you purchase a new computer that comes pre-installed with Windows Vista. Though, you do need to pay postage + handling.

The cheap versions of Windows 7 are upgrades anyway, aren't they? i personally don't like upgrading an OS and prefer a clean install.

If you want to bypass Vista, wait until W7 is released and then buy it???

MasterB · **3rd July 2009, 04:28 PM**

Look like the Technet Plus Promocode has expired. Does anyone have another one?

aanda6 · **3rd July 2009, 04:39 PM**

The TNSUMMER09 code still works and should work until the endo of July. I just entered it on the technet site and was accepted.

panther063 · **3rd July 2009, 04:41 PM**

I did mean paying full price for the oem and not a discounted price as per offers outside Australia. The discounted versions of w7 are "upgrades" but! it is stated that your hard drive can be formatted and a clean install done with these versions, the point being that i don't want to pay full price for an os, oem or retail, vista or w7.

pantonious · **3rd July 2009, 04:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by panther063

the point being that i don't want to pay full price for an os, oem or retail, vista or w7.

then download linux or get a mac.

i didn't want to pay full price for my house, but i had too. or my car, or my tv...

im sick of people talking like this. They complain microsoft does things wrong or is too expensive...then when they try to improve it (ie, offer discounts) they still complain.
Yes, the discount may not be offered in australia, but im sure there are a lot of things that you can't get in aus that you can get in the US.

/rant

skypilot · **3rd July 2009, 05:07 PM**

Signed up to TechNet - just did my first D/load - what a saga.

I tried my D-Link dns323 to do the off-peak dowload - did not like that
Tried FF and D/load Manger - did not like that
Tried FF download - did not like that.
tried IE8 64 did not like that - would not install a plug-in
Success likes IE8 32 bit!

Mike · **3rd July 2009, 05:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by skypilot

Signed up to TechNet - just did my first D/load - what a saga.

I tried my D-Link dns323 to do the off-peak dowload - did not like that
Tried FF and D/load Manger - did not like that
Tried FF download - did not like that.
tried IE8 64 did not like that - would not install a plug-in
Success likes IE8 32 bit!

I'm surprised that the MS downloader didn't kick in - that's what happens for me at both Technet and MSDN. It's pretty good, epecially since it has a resume option.

pantonious · **3rd July 2009, 05:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by skypilot

Signed up to TechNet - just did my first D/load - what a saga.

I tried my D-Link dns323 to do the off-peak dowload - did not like that
Tried FF and D/load Manger - did not like that
Tried FF download - did not like that.
tried IE8 64 did not like that - would not install a plug-in
Success likes IE8 32 bit!

also surprised that FF didn't work.

When W7 RC1 came out we downloaded it at work, we are behind a proxy and needed to use FF to download it, IE wouldn't work.

Satch · **3rd July 2009, 07:09 PM**

I wonder if us people down here in NZ and Aussie will get access to the Home Premium Family Pack licensing?

http://"http://www.kristankenney.com...ck-licensing/"

That would do the trick for my three required installs.

MasterB · **4th July 2009, 11:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by aanda6

The TNSUMMER09 code still works and should work until the endo of July. I just entered it on the technet site and was accepted.

Yepp, works fine now, thanks

Balrama · **8th July 2009, 12:30 AM**

Guys

I have read the threads on various sites and been to the technet site but I am still unclear as to what you are getting here.

Do you get 10 activations in total, or do you get 10 activations per product.

So I have 4 PC's, I will want 4 Win 7 activations and 4 Office activations for a total of 8 activations. Does this mean I have only 2 activations left in total or i would still have 6 Win 7 activations and say 10 Windows 2008 Servers activations