Windows 7

marksi · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 08.15

The only thing missing from the "Home Premium" edition is the Windows XP compatibility mode. Do I want to pay an extra £40 for that?

Also, I want two licences. Am I still better buying it now or will there be a further bundle offer? A third license would be useful to have.

Sput · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 08.20

Does your cpu support the virtualisation mode? I heard there will be a family pack, but it's not available yet.

marksi · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 08.43

The only thing I've used the compatibility mode for is a utility thing for the graphics card - it works without it but it's just a handy config thing. I think I'll just get the Home Edition x 2.

nidave · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 08.50

We got 2x Home Premium - the computability mode is not used on anything but old games for me - and I can use a virtual XP image.
Thats now 3 copies of windows I have bot outside of a new PC. I FEEL SO DIRTY!

Gavin Scott · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 09.11

I stuck the Beta on a pc at the weekend. Its not bad. Not really sure I see any advantage over XP to be honest, but its definitely faster than Vista.

Sput · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 09.30

I was ABOUT to buy it, because I'll surely find it useful at some point in the next few years. Buuuut Microsoft's online store has gone down and amazon appears to have run out already. Tsk @ the disorganised nature of this preorder thing.

Sput · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 09.42

Ah, play.com appear to have it so I've gone with them. I look forward to being shafted by their uselessness in the next 3-4 months.

lukey · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 10.30

How exactly does one sell out of something that hasn't been manufactured yet?

Sput · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 10.44

The pragmatist in my says you'd get an allocation from microsoft. The cynic in me says you can't and this is a marketing gimmick.

marksi · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 10.47

I just ordered 2xHome Premium at £44.97 each on Amazon.

Not that it's a big deal but will I need to do a clean install on the machine that is running the Evaluation copy or will just entering the product key do the job?

lukey · Wed 15 Jul, 2009 10.55

Sput wrote:The pragmatist in my says you'd get an allocation from microsoft. The cynic in me says you can't and this is a marketing gimmick.

It seems that essentially Amazon get given permission to hand out a few Windows 7-shaped Golden Tickets (because, well, at this stage, that's all this is) so that Redmond can very quickly push out a press release glowing that the entire pre-order allocation has gone in X minutes. Look! People want it! People want to buy it! This isn't Vista! So you want to buy it too! BUY IT.