Great news the price is cheaper for us! I just learn about the Microsoft Partner Network on Oct 7 at Wembley Stadium where they will be telling us about their strategies plus some of the technologies they are launching. Registration is at: https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/40114905 Is anything planning on attending this?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1406108/microsoft-reveals-windows-pricing

dont you read your own articles?

nice job ed!

Wow, 45 years on, you're still smarting from that Dick Van Dyke accent. Blimey, guv'nah.

it was going for $50 pre order in usa so you are not getting it cheaper

Bill Gates isn't running the show at MSFT anymore. Maybe someone over there should get a clue!

I'm may be missing something here...

...but there's also Amazon's 'Need Windows Now?' deal - buy Vista Home Premium Upgrade Version for £60.75 now (between 26th June and 15th October 2009), get Windows 7 Home Premium for free when it's released...saving...

brace yourselves

...a recession-busting £3.24!! ta-daaa

maybe that's what Drashek was trying to say though...

...crikey you dont have to be that clever or up to date on things to be a Tech Journo these days do you?

I guess some folks have been in a coma the past month or so.

Standards are just dropping and dropping.

Are we going to get the family pack with three licences in the UK?....haven't seen any advertised yet.

'glitch on amazon'?

The pre-order pricing for the UK has been common knowledge for some time now, after being published both on news sites and online shopping sites.

Until distributor's pre-order allocation runs out, the new OS is available at a much lower price than it will be once it is released.

i.e. Windows 7 premium pre-order £89.99 compared to post-release £219.99.

It is a good deal, but since the bbc published this news in June, no longer a shocker :)

After the UK pre-ordering began a number of retailers were selling this for £44.99. It only lasted around 36 hours but was plenty time for me to secure my copy. I was a very happy Brit that day.

if you take a copy of vista back can you get a discount?
or maybe they should pay consumers to use the o/s as they are always an unfinished beta, never a completed article