Windows 7 Pricing and Upgrade Options

We now have word from Microsoft on the pricing and upgrade options for their latest release, Windows 7. With the release date set of October the 22nd this year I'm sure you will all be interested to know how much you need to put aside! Windows 7 Home Premium (Retail): $199.99 Windows 7 Professional (Retail): $299.99 Windows 7 Ultimate (Retail): $319.99 Upgrade costings are as follows... Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99 Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade: $199.99 Windows...

Windows 7 Release Date Confirmed, 22nd Oct. 2009

As we previously mentioned a few weeks back, thanks to Acer the supposed launch date for Windows 7 would be October this year (2009). Well the cat is out of the bag as such, and Microsoft have announced that the highly anticipated operating system and successor to Windows Vista, Windows 7, will be released on October the 22nd 2009! Perfect timing for the holiday season. This will be one of the shortest times between operating system launches for Microsoft with only around three years between...

Free copy of Windows 7!! (for a year)… yes really!

Microsofts latest operating system Windows 7 is well on its way now. The company is releasing its first public Release Candidate on the 5th of May this year, with a very interesting twist... Windows 7 RC1 will not expire until the 1st of June 2010!. This effectively means you can have a free copy of Windows 7 for a year, allowing testers, network engineers, system builders and developers a really good chance to get their hands right in to trialing the operating system, without having to fork...

Windows 7 RC Now Available for MSDN, TechNet

Windows 7 RC is here!... for some of you As Microsoft promised over the weekend, Windows 7 Release Candidate is now officially available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Microsoft said in its press release that the RC milestone indicates the operating system is entering the final phases of development and is ready for partners to develop new applications, device drivers and services, and ready for IT pros to evaluate Windows 7 and examine how it will operate in their environment. In...

Windows 7’s XP Mode Requires 2 GB RAM

Despite its age, Windows XP is still widely used for several reasons – speed and compatibility being two of the leading ones. We learned last week that Windows 7 will include a special XP Mode that will run the older operating system in a virtual environment inside the upcoming OS to ensure maximum compatibility. In fact, Microsoft is claiming that XPM provides near perfect Windows XP compatibility within Windows 7 – so that takes care of one of the raison d'etre for the old...