Given the price that MS asks for their "latest version" (£130 for basic home win7) that we as consumers are used as guinea pigs to test until SP1 is released i find it incredible that MS as a business are still there.
I must admit, i was never ever a big apple fan, until i tried it. I suppose was a bit over the top to say windows sucks big style, but after using something that doesnt give me any headaches, you can imagine how i feel about windows lol
Best wishes
Dave
Hmmm... Win7 SP1 has been out for quite some time now, both 32 & 64 bit.
...but yeah, they do take liberties with their prices. Also, it's easy to get robbed by off-the-shelf prices, when it was posssible to buy it online for as little as £40 (up til recently, when they moved the goalposts again).
www.software4students.co.uk used to sell full versions of Win7 Professional and Office 2010 Professional for £40 each, where the off-the-shelf variants you might buy elsewhere were £150 and £400 respectively. These were perfectly legal licensed products, and the Office 2010 was a twin license pack that you could install on a PC and laptop, but you could just as easily install it on any two machines - it was never policed. However, with the advent of Windows 8 and Office 2013 and (the frankly criminal) Office 365, this is no longer possible. Win7 and Office 2010 are no longer available from them, and they, like so many other major outlets are being railroaded into only selling Win8 and Office 2013 / 365, where even the
upgrade version of Win8 is £160, and Office 2013 is £95 for the part-crippled Home & Student edition, which has a fraction of the apps you get in the full version. Office 365 is a whole different can 'o' crap... Yearly subscription! Who are they tryin' to kid?!? Who the feck is going to pay £90 a year for something when (as most people do), all they'll use it for is to write the odd letter, or one or two basic speadsheets to organise their finances? One sure way to make people use pirated software... take the piss with your prices. Office 2013, the non-subscription variant, is yet again hundreds of pounds, so we're back to square-one with that. I suspect they've punted this subscription version out there to test the water, with the end-game of making future versions of Windows a yearly subscription as well. I hope it bites them on their greedy corporate ass.
Soooo... rants aside,
I guess you can see that as much as I like Win7, and do rate it highly as a stable OS, I'm not the greatest fan of their business model, and never have been.
