Windows 7 Upgrades Now Available for Pre-Order!
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That’s right. Head over to Microsoft’s web site, where you can score a pre-order of Windows 7 Home for just $50 or Windows 7 Professional for $100. You have to be using a previous version of Windows to qualify for the upgrade, but the upgrade versions are complete and can be used to do a clean install (not just an “install over”) or even a dual-boot.
No word yet on whether there’ll be an equally sweet deal on Windows 7 Ultimate (currently, there isn’t), but we’re hoping to get an answer on that soon.
Also, today’s the official day on which you should be able to buy a new PC with a certificate for a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it’s released in October. Now, when this happened with Vista, it took a few weeks after the official “on sale date” for Vista to actually get your free upgrade, so it may be the same kinda thing with the Win 7 upgrade certs.
So far I haven’t seen any “buy now, get a free upgrade” notices on any of the major manufacturer’s websites, but Best Buy is all over it.
UPDATE: Dell‘s got it on their site now, although you have to look for it. HP sort of has it going on, but the links to the various regions seem to be broken.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
So if we’re running the RC, I assume that wouldn’t qualify for an upgrade. Did it say the upgrade was just for Vista or for XP as well?
I think those of us running the RC should get the cheapie upgrade too since we have been beta testing for MS. 🙂
June 28th, 2009 at 7:15 am
And as a side note to that: http://lifehacker.com/5302971/microsoft-may-sell-windows-7-on-flash-drives
July 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Yeah, I was gonna post somethign about it being available on flash drives…that would totally and completely rock. Looking forward to seeing how my Toshiba NB205 runs Win 7!