Windows 7 pricing announced
June 26th, 2009 - 3:35 am ICT by John Le FevreMicrosoft, the world’s largest software company, has announced pricing for Windows 7, the long awaited replacement for the much disliked Windows Vista operating system.
Starting Friday consumers can pre-order Windows 7 for the next two weeks at discounts of more than 50 percent, while buyers of new computers running Windows Vista will be entitled to a free upgrade once the new operating system is released.
Windows 7 prices will be some 10 percent lower than prices for Windows Vista, with an upgrade packages for Windows 7 Home Premium costing $US119, $US199.99 for Windows 7 Professional, $US219.99 for Windows 7 Professional, and $US319.99 for Windows 7 Ultimate.
The much anticipated release will be available on October 22, with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows consumer marketing at Microsoft claiming, “there is a lot of excitement for Windows 7 in the marketplace today”.
At its release Windows 7 will be available in English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Chinese (Hong Kong).
On October 31, a further 21 languages will become available: Turkish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Ukrainian, Romanian, Arabic, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Thai, Croatian, Serbian Latin and Latvian.
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