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Windows 7 Official Pricing Details Available

Windows 7 Home Premium is cheaper than Windows Vista Home Premium

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

25th of June 2009, 13:35 GMT

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Pricing was the last detail that Microsoft still had to reveal when it comes down to Windows 7. The Redmond-based company certainly took its due time, but the prices for the retail and upgrade packages of Windows 7 have now been finally made public. According to the software giant, the prices for Windows 7 will enable consumers to pay less and get more value for their money. The truth is that, with a small exception, Windows 7 editions will cost the same as the Windows Vista SKUs.

“So here’s the low-down on pricing for Windows 7. The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are: Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99; Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99; and Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99,” revealed Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager on the Windows Client Communications Team (emphasis added). Just in case you are curios, the Windows Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) costs $129.99; the Windows Vista Business (Upgrade) is $199.99; while the Windows Vista Ultimate Ultimate (Upgrade) is priced at $219.99.

“The estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are: Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99; Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99; and Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99,” LeBlanc added. In contrast, Windows Vista Home Premium (Full) ERP is $239.99; the Windows Vista Business (Full) costs $299.99; while the Windows Vista Ultimate Ultimate (Full) is $319.99.

In this regard, Microsoft is in fact offering a reduced price only for the Home Premium edition of Windows 7 in comparison with the same SKU of Windows Vista. “For Windows 7, we are reducing the price on our most popular retail product for customers, the Home Premium Upgrade, by approximately 10% (depending on the market). In the U.S., this means a customer buying Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade will pay only $119.99 instead of the $129.99 being charged today for its predecessor,” LeBlanc stated. “Windows 7 Home Premium full retail product is $40.00 less than Windows Vista Home Premium today.”

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Comment #1 by: HXJudy on 25 Jun 2009, 13:45 GMT	reply to this comment
This is terrible. Micro$oft is all about greed. Those of us who paid hundreds of dollars for vista still have to spend another hundreds of dollars just to get a minor upgrade. All I can say is RIP-OFF. Look at Apple, leopard users only pay $29 to upgrade to snow leopard. This will piss thousands of people of micro$oft!

Comment #1.1 by: Roes on 25 Jun 2009, 14:58 GMT

@HXJudy, everyone who call windows 7 is a minor upgrade is a complete idiot who pretend he knows something, while in fact he actually knows nothing. Windows 7 is far better than vista, and with major changes in the way it looks also. So it is a major one. In the other hand Snow Leopard is only a minor upgrade from leopard. The changes in leopard are only under the hood and can not be seen by novice user. So snow leopard is only like a service pack in windows. The different is Apple told you to pay 29 dollar for a service pack, while microsoft give it to you for free.

Comment #2 by: tar on 26 Jun 2009, 13:21 GMT	reply to this comment
Roes, if you buy a computer now, you'll pay 240$ for Vista and then another 120$ for upgrade to Windows7. 360$! You get robbed! Win7 about the same like vista except games run worse. I've tried 4 games that run on vista. 1 does not start the other one has a very low FPS and the other 2 run just like in vista.

Comment #3 by: HXJudy on 27 Jun 2009, 01:59 GMT

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@Roes- I have been using Windows 7 since the first beta and almost every build that came out after that. For ignorant and mindless users like you, a simple interface change can make you think that it's a completely new OS. Just look at the version number of Windows 7 and Windows Vista and you'll see what I mean. Let's get real here, how many of those "new" windows 7 features are actually practical? Even if Microsoft offers a discount for vista users, they would still make large sums of money, but no....all they care about is $$$$ and frankly, there are fools like you who are just glad to pay hundreds of dollars for a "service pack".

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