To start off its Windows 7 pre-order program, Microsoft is offering a discount of at least £100 on both the Home Premium and the Professional versions. Altough you’ll have to be quick as this is a limited time offer.

The launch RRP is £149.99 for Home Premium and £219.99 for Professional. However they are now available for £49.99 and £99.99 respectively, which is a massive reduction.

The pre-orders are via retail partners such as Amazon, Argos and Comet.

"Windows 7 does not come with a browser in the UK and also requires a clean install… You will need to back up all your files before starting and you will need to have a browser such as Internet Explorer 8 or a browser from another software manufacturer saved to a CD/DVD or external storage device before starting."

You’ll need a PC with these minimum recommended specifications to run Windows 7:

    * 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
    * 1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)
    * 16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20GB (64-bit)
    * DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

To check if you computer is compatible with Windows 7 you can run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.

*Update*

The Microsoft Store is not currently available due to the number of people trying to pre-order Windows 7

A notice on the Microsoft Store says the following: "Due to the eagerly anticipated Windows 7 pre-order offer we’re experiencing a higher level of demand on our website than usual.

"This means you can’t access the site right now and we’re sorry about that. We’ll be back up and running as soon as we can so please try again soon to get your hands on a copy of Windows 7!"

Search

Sponsor

NetPortal

Latest Article

CoolIT Domino i5 Testing

Back in July this year we tested the CoolIT watercooling kit using a heavily overclocked AMD 7750+ BE. It’s performance really surprised us with it absolutely caning the other coolers in question. However, processors have quickly moved on since July and we’ve got the likes of the Intel Core i7 and recent i5 dominating the market. For this reason, we thought some i5 testing using our trusty CoolIT Domino was in order. Let’s see if the performance from the Domino still survives in this day and age…

Read Article »

Related Content

Feb 19

Windows browser choice screen coming in March

Microsoft has recently agreed with the Europeon Commission over allegations of anti-competitive behaviour and as a result is rolling out an update whereby users with Internet Explorer set as their default browser will be faced with a screen prompting them to select a browser.

Read the Story »
Feb 19

iPhone App released which tells you who has an ASBO

ASBOrometer is a new iPhone App which gives you a percentage of your neighbourhood who have an ASBO. The information is pulled from Government databases before forwarding it onto users and even tells you what Asbo’s were issued.
Estate Agent’s aren’t taking humorously to the app though as it may put people off buying in areas [...]

Read the Story »
Jan 16

Britain has the 26th fastest internet in the world

According to Akamai’s ‘The State of the Internet (Q3-2009)’ report, Britain is ranked 26th in the world. The average download speed reported is just 3.5 Mbps.

Read the Story »
Sep 19

UK and US students get cheap Windows 7

Microsoft are offering what can only be described as an amazing offer to students in the UK and US. They’ve announced massive discounts on their latest OS, Windows 7 – provided you’re a student.

Read the Story »