Britain gets Windows 7 first

Yes I know there are people who like it and that's fine, but it is worse than crap it's Microcrap.
And if you have paid for Vista you should get the fixed version for free.

"It is rare that the UK gets anything first, other than swine flu..."

Oh, come on, get your facts straight Nick.

Great. I get not to ever buy it even earlier than I otherwise would not have done.

... for early adopter pain with correct spelling!

I think that you are racist, your comments about Uk are despreciates.im not britain but it seee in the flow

Got it for 20 bucks from an academic alliance with MSDN...

Win 7 RTM 64 bits Pro on a Phenom II X3 and 4gigs o ram, with a ATI 4870. It's running everything I throw at it fine.

Next weeks Im going to throw in a i5 750 with DDR3 2000, then fresh install 7 again.

Loving it... no even ONE early adopter pain yet.

For a gamer, there's nothing in 7 to concern about, but too much gaming.

So,we 'brits' are racist,lol.
I am ENGLISH-NOT a Brit poodle of the USA.
This country now has more foreigners,causing our massively ballooning budget deficit,thanks to the subversive actions of the dumbest American poddles in the history of this nation,Gordon Brown & Tony Bliar.

Anyway, back on topic- If Microsoft have released W7 early in this country,perhaps M$ can explain to those in this country that pre-ordered W7, why are we NOT getting our copies early?

my condolences to the british people
Dell form the USA

Just received a delivery notification from Amazon... it's via Home Delivery Network, and it's estimated as arriving on... the 22nd :/

Same here - Amazon is showing 22 October for my next day delivery (via Courier no doubt) but the copy I ordered via Currys (and snail-mail) arrived this morning! Currys said allow 4-5 working days for it to arrive, instead I get it two days early!

You do realize it was a joke right? Jokes need not be accurate. Get an upgrade for your sense of humor.

That being said I believe he was referring to swine flu getting their first ahead of other EU countries, not first overall. Just a guess as I have no idea and don't care.

I hope it comes with dental floss and toothpaste, blimey!

@AUTHOR

"This is probably not a good idea really because this means the first reviewers will be Brits and we tend to think everything is a bit crap."

Last I checked I didn't vote you to speak on my behalf (yes I am a Brit and a reviewer) and no I don't think everything is a bit crap, apart from the rubbish you people at the INQ spew out daily.

Instead of showing gratitude for the prudence shown by MS, you decide to belittle not only Microsoft (as is the usual game) but also the postal service employees.

If I had a penny for every retarded article I read on the INQ, I would be a bloody millionaire by now.

Pathetic.

I have had mine delivered via DHL from PCWorld today, I received a total of 30 Home Premiums and 30 Professionals, all to ten different addresses (as you couldn't pre-order more then 3 Home Premiums and 3 Professionals at any-one address), I have sucessfully collected them all, today.

In other news, the same whinging idiots are having a go at Windows Vista - I've been using it since day one and I've had NO PROBLEMS - so the comments that are referring to Windows 7 as a FIX are astonishing to me (not even being sarcastic).

Even all the stubborn XP Pro users that I know - have taken the plunge and jumped onto the Windows 7 Professional bandwagon, I didn't convince them, it was there decision.

I myself will stick with Windows Vista w/ SP2 for the time being as everything is running smoothly and has been for a long time, even the forsaken Creative Drivers worked perfectly first time, whilst others have had a bad experience.

With all that said... continue your worthless bashing of the author, it amuses that the whingers have no sense of humour and when confronted, they throw a hissy fit.

Be there or be Fawked, guy.

~rOll oUt tHe bArrel~

retyre youre self into yowre contee whence yow maye expect the event in safti

"....Brits and we tend to think everything is a bit crap".

Nooooooooooooo!

(Picks self up off floor)

Is THAT what they mean by Whingeing Poms?

Riiiiiiight. Now I get it.

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Now THAT'S sarcasm!

Amazon sent me an email yesterday at 11pm letting me know it's shipped to Romania, where I live.

Funny it's Amazon UK but they shipped it via Deutsche Post DHL...

Well anyways, it's Home Premium for 56 pounds, all shipping and taxes included. I'm pleased with it.

"Anyway, back on topic- If Microsoft have released W7 early in this country,perhaps M$ can explain to those in this country that pre-ordered W7, why are we NOT getting our copies early?"

Because your lazy postmen are on strike? ;)

I hope it's not bloated like the fat smelly yanks who created it..!!!

(With their false white punchable teeth, sorry, dentures!)

WTF?

Americans don't all have fake smiles, we just brush & floss. I was going to say "brush & floss more often", but then I tried to think of the percentage of european smiles that didn't make me puke in my mouth a little. I mean I chew tobacco...2 cans a day...and my teeth aren't that yellow & crooked. Actually, they're pretty white & straight. I've never even had a filling.

And "smelly"? If you consider smelling like we've bathed lately, you're correct. To us, "smelly" is a byproduct of you washing your towels in one of your low-water, low detergent European washer/dryers (I call them washer/drier/dank machines) and not bathing on a daily basis.

You got me on calling us fat. I'm a whopping 240 pounds & only 170 of them are muscle. Maybe I should start working out.

Got mine on monday through good old PCWorld pre-order. Initial impressions are very positive, it feels fast, light and highly responsive, love it ! Great driver support also.

Running Quad Core 3.2ghz,4Gb ,4870x2 ,SSD

Hacked & cracked since Monday *yawn*

Why bother when I have a fully legal version for free, courtesy of MS.

Ah, gotta love that universal MSDN subscription ^^