Microsoft launches Windows 7 three months early in UK

[Axemantitan]

Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7 has gone on sale in the UK almost three months ahead of schedule at massively reduces prices, it has emerged.

The software officially goes on sale to the general public on October 22, but Microsoft has released it early with prices starting from £49.99 for Windows Premium.

Early buyers will be able to snap up Windows 7 for a limited pre-sale period and will save up to £100 for the Premium package alone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1199861/Microsoft-sells-early-release-Windows-7-just-days-Google-announces-launch-rival-operating-system.html

[xUKHCx]

This is the pre-order sale, it is not like the UK customers will get copies of the windows 7 early.

The sale is already available in the US.

Also technically it will be Windows 7 E which means no upgrade install but rather and full system install

The early release comes just days after Google announced it would be launching a rival operating system Google Chrome OS.

This pre-order sale has been planned long before Google's annoucment.

[MTI]

As much as Redmond loves their UK cousins . . . there's no way they'll ever get a release before the US market . . . well, at least not until the US gets Top Gear episodes on BBCA before they do . . . ;)