http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8118749.stm
includes pricing for windows 7,
no upgrade option for vista users in europe, you need to buy a full copy due to EU anti competition regulations.

thats just fukin ripoff , as usual the us gets all the discounts, and they expect the rest to pay full price.

all i can say is bring on the D/L's "free" an the legit copy.

just another way to make more money accusing europeans law for the inconvinience ppl will have to pay to get off that crap Vista
Btw I agree with bob and free DL

Windows 7 is good. Will be "Downloading" it when a cracked version come out, just liek i did with Vista

It's about bloody time the games developers started to port their products to Linux, then we can all ditch this M$ cack.

The thing is, M$ claim its to do with the EU rulings but it can't possibly be so. I can't think of any technical reason for them not to offer us upgrades in the EU.

Steve Balmer is just being the typical overgrown child that he has always been. 'You fined me but I'm gonna get all that money back. yeah you see if I don't waaaaa'

@ wolfie there is plenty of cracked version of 7 but not retails .... microsoft still havnt commented the price on their site so it may just be bs

Well.. if you have the beta they let you purchase it for cheap.

pre order price for windows 7 in the uk is £49.99

I managed to bag a copy from Currys for £45
4GB hyper-x ram coming for laptop to run it, for £45 too - nice

everywhere was sold out when i tried to pre order



So i bought a copy of vista instead from amazon, i get a free upgrade to windows 7 home premium in october

and when i upgrade i can still use vista on another system :p 2 OS's for the price of one lol