Get Â£100 discount on Windows 7 - hurry

**3rdStafford** · 08-07-2009, 15:33

Anvika are taking pre-orders for Windows 7, with a Â£120 discount on the Home Premium edition, and Â£100 off the Professional edition.

From their site:

You will be contacted on July 15th to complete your purchase.

Offer ends on 9th August, 2009. Limited to 3 copies person. P&P Â£5.99

**msr** · 08-07-2009, 15:40

Originally Posted by Donkey-Spanker

Anvika are taking pre-orders for Windows 7, with a Â£120 discount on the Home Premium edition, and Â£100 off the Professional edition.

From their site:

You will be contacted on July 15th to complete your purchase.

Offer ends on 9th August, 2009. Limited to 3 copies person. P&P Â£5.99

That is the standard pre-order price. It will be the same everywhere and the deal runs from 15 July...

MSR

**3rdStafford** · 08-07-2009, 15:48

Originally Posted by msr

That is the standard pre-order price. It will be the same everywhere and the deal runs from 15 July...

MSR

I've only seen one supplier mentioned in news items, and yes the offer is open from July to August, but according to the news reports "Customers are allowed to buy only up to three licences, and stocks are limited."

**msr** · 08-07-2009, 15:51

Everyone will offer it: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...ice_discounts/

These guys are just trying to steal a march on the rest ;)

MSR

**Slick-Rick** · 08-07-2009, 15:56

Orrrr

Download Ubuntu and burn it to disc which is free legal software, a million times better than windows and boots up in roughly 23 seconds

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Comes with everything, office, GIMP (photoshop), tons of software and games

For a fun vid of what Ubuntu can do have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfSwzhSn1c&feature=fvst

**Bugsy** · 08-07-2009, 16:03

Is it not better to wait a year or two until all the inevitable bugs are ironed out?

MsG

**msr** · 08-07-2009, 16:05

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Is it not better to wait a year or two until all the inevitable bugs are ironed out?

MsG

The pre-release price is very competitive (although the software is not actually shipped until October 22) and let's face it, Windows 7 is really Vista SP3 ;)

MSR

**Baldrick66** · 08-07-2009, 16:11

Originally Posted by msr

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Is it not better to wait a year or two until all the inevitable bugs are ironed out?

MsG

The pre-release price is very competitive (although the software is not actually shipped until October 22) and let's face it, Windows 7 is really Vista SP3 ;)

MSR

You forgot to add Windows 7 was the first Beta Microsoft has ever released that actually worked pretty well from the off! The release candidate is far better and is nowhere near the resource hog Vista is.

Rather than Vista Service Pack 3, I would have described it more as what Vista was meant to be in the first place

**Bugsy** · 08-07-2009, 16:15

Originally Posted by msr

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Is it not better to wait a year or two until all the inevitable bugs are ironed out?

MsG

The pre-release price is very competitive (although the software is not actually shipped until October 22) and let's face it, Windows 7 is really Vista SP3 ;)

MSR

Do you think, MSR? When it first came out, I was tempted to upgrade to Vista from XP, but one of my brothers had such a load of grief with it, that I never bothered. Anyway, I'm sure I remember that Microsoft are going to be supporting XP until 2012.

So how good (or bad) is Windows 7? Is it actually worth getting?

MsG

**msr** · 08-07-2009, 16:21

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../download.aspx

knock yourself out.

**Austen_D** · 08-07-2009, 17:02

Half the features new to Windows 7 were promised in vista. It's definately nothing groundbreaking but it actually works without crashing and taking up all your ram and processing cycles. I haves copy and it's probably worth a purchase. I prefer macs myself though.

**jaybee2786** · 08-07-2009, 17:07

If you are going to stick with windows!!!!!!!!! install virtual pc on to your system and get your hands on an ISO of whatever system you want to try out see if you like it.

**Bugsy** · 08-07-2009, 17:09

Originally Posted by msr

http://www.Microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

knock yourself out.

Cheers muchly indeed for the link, MSR, but I'm fÃ¼cked if I understand what's to do on that site. Apparently, once I install it, it'll keep going on the blink every two hours after a certain date unless I fork out for a pukka version. I'm not sure if I can handle that with my rudimentary IT abilities.

I'm still trying to figure out how I can download Ubuntu to the sectioned-off bit of my hard-disk (sorry about the technical terms. :D).

MsG

**One_of_the_strange** · 08-07-2009, 21:51

Originally Posted by Slick-Rick

Orrrr

Download Ubuntu and burn it to disc which is free legal software, a million times better than windows and boots up in roughly 23 seconds

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Comes with everything, office, GIMP (photoshop), tons of software and games

For a fun vid of what Ubuntu can do have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfSwzhSn1c&feature=fvst

The big problem with Ubuntu is that the default GUI is GNOME. Frankly, it's different to Windows for no better reason that it can be (Wooo let's stick it to the man, I've got a t-shirt with a penguin on it etc).

So don't bother, try the KDE flavour of Ubuntu instead. Kubuntu
I found it a lot easier to move to from XP than GNOME and am still happily using it.

Of course if you want to play modern games on your machine then Win7 is the only game in town if you're buying a PC these days. That said, I reckon it's still worth setting up a dual boot machine and doing everything else in Linux.

Or a Mac, if you're a trendy young thing with lots of money. Or my wife. Neither of which is me.