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On June 25, Microsoft took the wraps off its Windows 7 retail pricing. Bottom line: If you preorder (U.S., Canada and Japan only for now),Office Professional 2010, you'll be able to preserve a lot more than 50 percent more than what similar Vista versions cost. Should you don;t, you;ll shell out approximately the same for Windows 7 while you compensated for Vista at retail.(My ZDNet blogging colleague Ed Bott includes a additional thorough have a look at the retail pricing for each Windows seven edition.)There;s still a lot we don;t learn about Windows seven pricing, for example just how much Microsoft is charging Pc makers per copy of Windows seven, which may perhaps have an impact on what Computer makers will cost for new Windows seven PCs. Microsoft isn;t talking about regardless of whether it will supply a Family members Pack for Windows 7 and how much that will price. (I asked; no dice.) And, as Bott mentioned, there;s no word on what the Anytime Upgrade pricing — for users who want to jump up to a much more feature-rich Windows 7 SKU — will be.Microsoft also acknowledged on June 25 that the Windows seven Upgrade Option program will kick off on Friday, June 26, as was expected. Participating Computer makers and retailers will be offering users who buy Vista PCs as of June 26 a coupon for a free duplicate of Windows 7 once it's available, after October 22. The official details on how the program will work are available on Microsoft;s Upgrade Offer you site.Some industry watchers had been predicting — and hoping — Microsoft would get a good deal extra aggressive with Windows seven pricing, especially given the state of the economy. Others had been anticipating Microsoft would likely hold pricing steady, even though Windows 7 already is shaping up to be a lot more popular than Vista.Microsoft is offering a retail price cut of 8 % (for the upgrade edition) to 17 percent (for the full edition) for the Home Premium version of Windows 7. IDC analyst Richard Shim said that is a good start, and added he is expecting the preorders, with the 50+ percent cuts to “likely fly off the shelves.”But given the fact that Microsoft sells new versions of Windows via Pc preloads and volume-licensing deals — not in the form of retail copies — there are other far more pressing pricing matters.“The extra important question is what are the cuts like to the OEMs?” Shim said. “That;s where Microsoft makes a majority of their revenue when it comes to the OS. Last time around with Vista, OEMs weren;t too pleased with the multiple variations, the delivery delays and the removal of some significant features and they grumbled about it quite a bit. This time around, Microsoft could want to try to win back some goodwill with OEMs.”Charles King Principal Analyst with Pund-IT praised the “global uniformity” of Microsoft;s Windows seven retail pricing, and said that Microsoft already has done lots to make pricing simpler and easier to understand than Vista;s. While he said he is expecting fewer users to want to downgrade to Vista or XP from Windows 7, King said he was curious how downgrades will be priced by Computer makers. Will users have to shell out extra for “downgrade rights”? No phrase on that yet.What;s your get on Microsoft;s Windows 7 retail pricing?
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