[Kal-EL]

Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Retail Prices Ahead of General Availability
Microsoft unveiled the retail pricing structure of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, and its three important variants: Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, elaborating on the pricing on both the upgrade and full versions. Microsoft also announced that customers buying PCs pre-installed with existing versions of Windows from select sources (retailers or OEMs), will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 at "little or no cost". The company also announced that select retailers in certain markets will be able to offer for a limited period of time, a pre-order discount scheme that can reduce the price by as much as 50 percent.

Here are the prices (in USD):
Windows 7 Home Premium - $199.99 (full version), $119.99 (upgrade)
Windows 7 Professional - $299.99 (full version), $199.99 (upgrade)
Windows 7 Ultimate - $319.99 (full version), $219.99 (upgrade)
Microsoft also detailed the global availability of the OS, and in different languages. The English version will launch on October 22. PC OEM vendors will be able to start shipping PCs pre-installed with the OS on the same day. Apart from the English version, Windows 7 in Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Chinese (Hong Kong), will be available on the same day. Windows 7 in Turkish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Ukrainian, Romanian, Arabic, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Thai, Croatian, Serbian Latin, and Latvian, will be available on October 31.

Source: The Windows Blog

[Buckeye]

for the full version cost of Windows 7 Ultimate you might as well get a TechNet sub and have every OS and Apps they make.

I have that sub and its a great deal, never have to worry about keys, plus full versions of everything, Office Ultimate etc., etc...

[Komadyret]

Found an article about it here in norway (It did ofcourse get a little hype yesterday as it actully comes in norwegian on launch-day).
It hinted at a €300 pricetag for the Ultimate and "only" €285 for the Professional, €120 for the Premium. And you know what? I'm positive the journalist who quoted those prices have NO clue what so ever that there actually exists upgrade versions, and that his prices are not quoting what versions they are for

Nice hint about the tech-net vs. Ultimate pricetag Buckeye

[Jeffro64]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

for the full version cost of Windows 7 Ultimate you might as well get a TechNet sub and have every OS and Apps they make.

I have that sub and its a great deal, never have to worry about keys, plus full versions of everything, Office Ultimate etc., etc...

Tell us more about this....

[Kal-EL]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...2%7Cnp:TEYFY09

Courteousy of Buckey

[Neuromancer]

Ah sweet I was just going to post that too Got my email about an hour ago
On a side note, if you have kids you can sign up for dreamspark.

I grabbed Server 2008. They send you emails about "validating" then they say WTH and just give you access anyway