bought my windows 7
There’s a promo going on right now with Microsoft where if you buy Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Edition, it’s only 50 bucks starting today and lasting until July 11. So I bought it, from Amazon specifically. I won’t get it until just before Halloween (accounting for the 5-to-9 day ship time after Oct 22 which is the official release date), but it is bought. The shipping will be free.
This is the third time I’ve ever actually bought a copy of Windows.
The first time was Windows 95 Upgrade, which ironically I bought for about the same price as the Win 7 Upgrade.
I never bought Windows 98. It came installed with the crappy Compaq Preasrio I was using at the time.
I never bought Windows XP Home Edition. That came installed on the Dell box I bought after the Compaq, and ran it for several years.
I did buy Windows XP Professional Edition. That cost me $149. In fact the exact date I bought it was March 12, 2007. I know this because I have the email receipt from Microsoft archived from the date of purchase.
I’m really glad Microsoft had this sale because it saves me $150. And that’s a lot of cash saved at this point in time. I am running Windows 7 RC right now on the big box PC and have been since its release. It beats the ever-lovin’ shit out of XP. My laptop still uses XP. Every time I use XP I can’t stand it now. Yes, Win 7 is just that good.
The ones I skipped
There are not one but two versions of Windows I completely skipped. The first was Windows Me, the second being Windows Vista.
I used Windows Me years ago on a then-friend’s PC and that version was truly a complete piece of shit. Microsoft should have never released this and it boggles the mind why they did in the first place. It barely lasted over a year. Windows Me was released September 2000. Windows XP on the shelves October 2001.
Windows Me was so bad that it is in PC World’s top 5 of the 25 worst tech products of all time. ‘Nuff said.
Vista literally scared me. If I had dared run that OS in pre-SP1 days, life would have seriously sucked. I never had any intention of buying it at all, much less using it.
I’ll be looking forward to getting my boxed version of 7 in October.
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Hi Rich,
I bought Windows 7 today also. I bought 3 seats of Home Premium at 49.99 each from Microsoft’s site. Don’t have to pay for it until Oct 22nd, so it’s too good of a deal to pass up. I purchased the download version. I have Vista on my main box and am running 7RC on my laptop. I have a new computer I’m going to build on the way from Amazon and Newegg. Though I’ve used Vista since it came out, I can see why many people don’t like it. You really have to be careful about the power of a computer you install it on, and you need a good anti-virus that doesn’t hog resources.
I entertained the idea of getting the download but I wanted the boxed version since Amazon was doing free shipping on it.
Vista is not as bad as first introduced, but the damage is done as far as its reputation is concerned. Win 7 should bring a lot of confidence back to Windows users. It did for me, no question.
My name is Luca; I live on the second floor.
I live upstairs from you. You may have heard me if I swore.
You might hear something late at night, as I swear at my computer ‘cos it won’t go right;
I never used Linux before; – and I won’t use it any more.
It’s kinda hard to explain: I try not to swear too loud:
Sometimes all drivers just won’t work. I can’t connect up to the cloud.
It takes 4 hours to make it run; and after that it’s no longer fun.
I’ll never use Linux again. This Linux distro is a pain.
When I first got my machine; Mic-ro-soft Win-dows installed,
It seemed to op-er-ate quite well, at least that’s what I can recall.
Then someone gave a disc to me; they said that it’s better and they said it’s free. –
This piece of shit don’t work, it’s crashed; – I should have thrown it in the trash.
My name is Luca; I live on the second floor.
I live upstairs from you, – but you can’t hear me any more.
I’m so engrossed, like I’m in heaven, because I in-stalled Windows 7.
My box works better than before. – I won’t use Linux any more.
I won’t use Linux any more.
I just won’t use it any more.