You don't have to join it-- that's just functionality that Win7 Home Premium lacks, but Win7 Pro supports. So they're saying "click here if you need an OS that supports this feature", essentially.
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Microsoft Matches Snow Leopard Price With Windows 7, But Only for Students
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Correct - there are discounts out there that indeed apply to .edu email addresses, but not all of them are "anyone-who-possesses" sort of deals. Some are specifically noted that they include students only, and not faculty. Those that don't specify a student promotions' eligibility are usually just that - for the students alone.
There are many out there that exclude faculty. (Don't quote me, but wasn't the Buy A Mac, Get An iPod promo students only?) My suggestion is contact someone and try to locate any info - that's what I do. Online clauses are often so vague, it takes a translator. Even if they do speak shattered English.
Heres what happens.
People see Microsoft and their immediate response to everything is...
The iPod is so much better than the Zube. M$ copies Apple at everything.
Give me a break how about some thought out arguments.
People see Microsoft and their immediate response to everything is...
The iPod is so much better than the Zube. M$ copies Apple at everything.
Give me a break how about some thought out arguments.
You missed out on the few weeks of discount Windows 7 upgrades for everyone then?
Nope. I get mine free. I'm not worried about the cost of Windows licenses for myself. So unless you're going to try to tell me that everyone else in the world bought Windows 7 licenses during the weeks of discount upgrades, the point is moot.
Microsoft is doing what it can here and there to make the price more reasonable for early adopters or students, etc. That's great. But the fact remains that there are a lot of PCs in hospitals and at businesses that now have less of a reason to expedite upgrading to Windows 7, because it will still cost them a bundle.
Once the time to buy new hardware rolls around it'll just be OEM licenses again. We knew that.
Download? Are You Kidding ME?
From everything that I have read, Windows 7 will be a staggering 16 GB. Now how is that going to work for everyone? That will take forever and a day even on a great connection.
From everything that I have read, Windows 7 will be a staggering 16 GB. Now how is that going to work for everyone? That will take forever and a day even on a great connection.
Once the time to buy new hardware rolls around it'll just be OEM licenses again. We knew that.
So 2-3 years from now. Excellent.
How is this any different than what has been done in the past?So 2-3 years from now. Excellent.
I'm sure businesses are going to happily be dragged into Snow Leopard by Apple. They don't have a choice there.
Windows 7 Ultimate fits on a standard DVD (around 3GB). Even if you downloaded both 64 bit and 32 bit, along with debugging symbols for both, you are in at less that 7GB. I'm not sure what you were reading, but 16GB seems pretty extreme.
It isn't any different. That's my point. It may have been different if Microsoft had priced things differently, but now it won't be.
Nobody considers $29 exorbitant (I actually got it for less than that with my discount from my work). So even if you required Snow Leopard for your application it isn't like it's all that big a deal.
But who's being drug into Snow Leopard anyway? Right now there are no apps making use of GCD, OpenCL, or any of the other technologies inside of there. It isn't buying you much of anything except an arguable snappier UI and MS exchange support (which is late in coming IMHO anyway). There probably won't be a significant application that REQUIRES snow leopard for another 6 months, maybe longer. Are you suggesting that its onerous to plan for a $29 purchase 6 months from now?
I pre-ordered mine this morning! $29 for Win 7 Pro 32bit! This is a no-brainier people. Despite the fact that I believe Windows is the model of dysfunction, I ordered a Samsung N110 Netbook ($349 Amazon w 9hr batt life). I'll use it at university specifically for note-taking, email, and surfing. However, I've dreaded the thought of having to wake up every morning knowing I'll be using a 10 year old OS (XP). So, for $29 I can get rid of it, and if Win 7 ends up being the pernicious, bloated, backdoor ridden, big-brotherware I suspect it is, I can go back to XP. At least I know how to lock it down reasonably well... blech. For $380 sadly, there is no Apple alternative. After I have the budget to buy a MBP, I can sell it on Ebay, and make money -or throw it on some random wincrap box, and run it wide open as a zombie machine for entertainment.
Everyone is being dragged to Snow Leopard and it only gets worse with new hardware.
You'll want to look here.
You must have had some special development version of XP. We still have another 2 or 3 years until XP is 10 years old.
If your a student?
W7's price scheme is typical of MS. If they don't mind, I'll stick with Apple OSX professional edition, which is the same as the home edition and the student edition and the upgrade edition.
When is this released? Kind of early for an announcement isn't it. Oh yeah, they want to draw off the attention to the much superior Snow Leopard.
Let em have it, anyone who wants to jump into the MS snake-pit deserves everything they get--viruses and all.
W7's price scheme is typical of MS. If they don't mind, I'll stick with Apple OSX professional edition, which is the same as the home edition and the student edition and the upgrade edition.
When is this released? Kind of early for an announcement isn't it. Oh yeah, they want to draw off the attention to the much superior Snow Leopard.
Let em have it, anyone who wants to jump into the MS snake-pit deserves everything they get--viruses and all.
Don't forget the infamous registry, disk defragmentation (or lack thereof), and drivers that never work as promised. No one could pay me enough to go back to having to fight that POS sorry excuse for an operating system. I use XP only for the proprietary applications I have to. Otherwise, I would perform torturous acts just to see how quickly I could make it crash (insert evil grin smiley).
O RLY? As the lucky guy my friends and relatives call when they have a Windows problem, I beg to differ with your assessment.
And those calls have decreased now that many of them have switched to Macs. Hmmm...
I like this move, and it is a great start. This is why I like competition. If Apple would never have blown up the way they did, microsoft would not have moved an inch on their ridiculous prices.
Will this version work with bootcamp on a Mac? Don't currently have a Windows system running on my Mac, but I think it would definitely be worth $30 for the few things that OS X can't do.
So your concern is that people purchasing new macs cannot request Leopard to be installed on it by Apple? Or that Apple does not guarantee that all new macs will ship with hardware where Leopard device drivers will be available if you wanted to go back?
That's the way it's been forever; that didn't change with Snow Leopard. If that were going to upset you, it should have done so way before now.
But BTW - I have a friend with a brand new iMac that installed Tiger on it just to try something out, and it worked great. So it isn't like Apple prevents you from going backwards, or that you there's no way it would work...
The article is wrong, the $29 W7 price is for Home Premium. Check it out for yourself dude. Why would anyone choose the Home Premium when the Professional version offers the same plus more?http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage
Also, where in my post did I say anything about Bit Locker being fully protective of the users data? Those are your words but I can assure you Apple's File Vault encryption WORKS, almost too well.
True enough. I don't have a concern about it. I can understand why a business would and rightfully so.
I really hope you read the thread that I linked to and the Guide that I worked on because I really don't want to explain everything all over again, again.