News Vista available for pre-order in UK

Anglian Internet are now listing the 64-bit OEM Ultimate upgrade for £135 inc.

Has anyone that ordered at the lower price had anything back from them?

 

And if you rebuild then tough tits basically?

 

I Done Oreder the 64-bit OEM Ultimate I will Rock With it

 

It's not an upgrade...

 

Oops! My bad

 

I guess they realised once they had many orders in @ £85. I've not heard back from them, but I presume they'll contact me and say it was an error - issuing a refund at the same time.

 

64BIT means that your CPU, if it is a 64bit part, can use double the bandwidth over 32 bit CPU's, thus doing more. But it currently doesn't do anything, infact it often slows down games a bit (like 0.2 fps but we should see better performance with Vista. Compatibility is also an issue.

 

yes you will

 

im really beginning to consider installing a cracked vista, its so much easier and atleast i can install it numerous times =/

This whole issue of limited installs on your computer - WTF . I bought the OS, id like to do what i want with it and i mean contiously re-installing it too if i see fit. Say i need to reformat? christ.
Id actually buy a copy of vista legitamately if this whole thing about limited installs wasnt such a big problem...not anymore

 

the funny thing ive found with this thread, is that linux is sounding even more tempting, go figure

 

I thought they decided not to limit the number of times it could be installed.... I'm sure I read that someplace.

 

don`t see how overclockers is going to even sell Vista for £365, do i get an free PC with it?

any one buying vista would not pay for retail

the useing the OEM key on an other pc not sure how thay stop that works fine doing it on XP

 

Hmmm.. interesting marketing strategy from Microsoft... I personally dont understand how making a product incredibly expensive and more difficult to use than it's pirated version is going to stop piracy...

-ed out

 

WTF are you talking about? Vista Retail, Upgrade or Full, can be re-installed as many times as you like, on as many machines as you want, by full permission of Microsoft. The only limitation is only one install active at a time.

Vista OEM has limitations (though re-formatting certainly isn't one of them) but it's half the price. Your money, your choice.

 

Ah well, i had asked the question as to what exactly this install thing was numerous times but not one single person could explain it to me clearly so i just presumed the whole fuss was over limited installations on them all.

Well i may just buy the retail then =/

 

I received Vista Business edition this morning from my college network administrator, MSDNAA is very helpfull, especially as i can order them all as there seperate codes and programs, and i can get the others when they get released later this month This means i pay £0 unless i buy a DVD from my network admin.

Sam

Oh, second edit: heh, i was told about the activation stuff for vista, and well, let me explain it to you so it might help, for me, i have to activate it every 3 months or so, if it detects piracy material then the activation will fail and vista will lock out all valuable information on the hard drive, even to the administrator

 

oh noes!

 

^ Damn! But I wonder how many of those e-mails they had to send out

I think the days of accidental low prices are pretty much gone.

 

i jsut looked and seen they have changed it to 135 unlucky, man 85 that would ve good, shame really!

 

yup, thats why I e-mailed them back stright away.