{"id":1049,"date":"2009-06-26T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-06-26T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:00:40","slug":"more-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"More Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/Windows 1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has announce the official pricing system for Windows 7. Thankfully, the new OS isn&#8217;t going to cost more than Vista, as was rumored, and it is actually the most inexpensive version of Windows ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, There&#8217;s definitely still room for improvement. The pricing system for Windows 7 is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home Premium Full Version &#8211; <b>$199.99<\/b><br \/>\nThis is the version of Windows 7 that most people are going to get. It offers all features of Windows 7 except for automatic backup &#038; restore, XP emulation, and BitLocker encryption.<\/li>\n<li>Professional Full Version &#8211; <b>$299.99<\/b><br \/>\nProfessional adds the ability to emulate Windows XP (very handy for business professionals who cannot afford to have software incompatibilities), and make automatic backups.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Full Version &#8211; <b>$319.99<\/b><br \/>\nUltimate adds BitLocker on top of the Professional features. Ultimate is, overall, a ripoff that Microsoft should not be offering anymore. Don&#8217;t buy it unless you <em>desperately<\/em> need BitLocker&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compared to Windows Vista&#8217;s $239.99 for Home Premium, that&#8217;s pretty good. However, the real discounts come with the upgrade versions, for which Microsoft currently has a promotion running so that Home Premium and Pro are <em>half off<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home Premium Upgrade &#8211; usually $119.99, now <b>$49.99<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Professional Upgrade &#8211; usually $199.99, now <b>$99.99<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Upgrade &#8211; <b>$219.99<\/b> (no promotional discount for Ultimate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/Windows 7 box.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Considering how much better Windows 7 is compared to Vista, these prices are just right. Of course, it would be great if Microsoft could be more like Apple and release <em>one version<\/em> of their OS with <em>all of the features<\/em> for <em><strong>$29.99<\/strong><\/em>, although Snow Leopard admittedly adds less to Leopard than Windows 7 does to Vista.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy Windows 7 at <a href=\"http:\/\/store.microsoft.com\/microsoft\/Windows-Windows-7\/category\/102\">Microsoft&#8217;s Store<\/a>. Act fast, the promotional prices won&#8217;t last forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announce the official pricing system for Windows 7. Thankfully, the new OS isn&#8217;t going to cost more than Vista, as was rumored, and it is actually the most inexpensive version of Windows ever produced. That being said, There&#8217;s definitely still room for improvement. The pricing system for Windows 7 is as follows: Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,41],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-rants","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}