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Through July 11, Microsoft is offering steep discounts on Windows 7 upgrades for the Home and Pro versions of the software–but not Windows 7 Ultimate.

According to a CNET report, users can “preorder Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional at roughly half the list price, but the Ultimate version is offered at the full $219 price.”

Those who currently use Windows Vista Ultimate and were hoping to switch to Windows 7 Ultimate were understandably upset. After getting little more than a few extras with Vista Ultimate, like Microsoft’s BitLocker Drive Encryption software, they were hoping they’d be treated better this time around when they opted for Windows 7 Ultimate.

No such luck.

But instead of railing against Microsoft for treating its Windows Vista Ultimate customers so poorly, perhaps we should turn our focus to Windows 7 Ultimate itself. It might be the follow-up to Windows Vista Ultimate. Microsoft might have thrown every feature into it. But if we take an objective look at what it really offers, I don’t think Microsoft can justify its existence as a consumer operating system.

We’ll have to see how users respond to Windows 7, getting users to upgrade from XP let alone Vista might be a hard sell for a while, as with most operating system launches, the majority of users will upgrade when they buy a new pc.

My main concerns in comparison to Vista are the performance or perceived performance and that are you sure you want to do that thing when I want to run computer manager. I know the mac does the same to me, you need to enter a username and password,  but the problem? On a Windows pc I feel I know what I’m doing, let me get on with it, and the thing is I don’t know how you get around that.

It will be interesting to see what the response is when Windows 7 launches, it certainly looks nice, however as a proud owner of a Dell Optiplex 755 with a Core 2 Duo and 2G RAM, I think we’ll stay on XP, it’s nice and fast. We’re only ever browsing the web/office work, and as my wife said “What’s this Vista thing? Can’t we have XP?”, the icon changes, the options it gave her were just that little bit too much, and the load time was just that bit too much. Switching it back to XP classic mode kind of seemed like defeating the object of upgrading.

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