Windows 7 OEM Pricing Revealed

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OEM versions of Windows do not come without fancy boxes, manuals, packaging, or even tech support, but they do come with a lower sticker price.
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This makes no sense. You're saying they DO come with fancy boxes, manuals, packaging, and tech support.

 
Or you could get the upgrade, install cleanly without entering the license key, then put in the dvd and upgrade from within the new install with your upgrade key...
 
what about Starter Edition - OEM vs Retail prices?
Only need IE, Explorer and Media Player.
Other apps I go for freewares or open source.
Cheapskate ultimate, that's me!
 
Has anyone ever called Window's tech support? I called once years ago, but only because my OEM tech support was giving me the run-around. Of course, they told me they couldn't help me, and that was that.

In 15+ years of Windows computing, that was the only time I ever even thought of calling Microsoft. I'm just wondering how often people do it. Does the average consumer buying that fancy box at Best Buy even know Microsoft has tech support? Besides resetting a user password, what reason could you have for calling them? I doubt they help with 3rd party drivers or software, which is what most people run anyway.
 
[citation][nom]nirvanabah[/nom]This makes no sense. You're saying they DO come with fancy boxes, manuals, packaging, and tech support.[/citation]That is pretty funny, I am so used to typo's that I overlook them and usually don't notice, or actually give a rats ass. Good catch and... uhh... WHO GIVES A SHIT! They never fix it anyway! That's like complaining to your friend about the shitty car you just bought! Go tell FORD about it! -Peace
 
Not that the prices aren't nice but per Microsoft's product page: "Both 32-bit and 64-bit installation discs are included in the Windows 7 retail box. " (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Installing-Windows-frequently-asked-questions), so it would seem that the vast majority of the "savings" is simply from splitting out the two versions.
 
Not that the prices aren't nice but per Microsoft's product page: "Both 32-bit and 64-bit installation discs are included in the Windows 7 retail box. " (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Installing-Windows-frequently-asked-questions), so it would seem that the vast majority of the "savings" is simply from splitting out the two versions.
 
considering that apple dropped OS prices to $30, and Linux is $0, there's getting to be less and less reason to whip out a whopping $300 for a OS that is with less stability, and more bugs. My prediction is these prices will keep the pirates busy hacking it and corporate world pondering alternatives.
 
Wait a tic.... Isn't it true that the activation on an OEM version of windows will only work once? By that I mean, if you have to call microsoft to get an authorization code...won't they tell you your version of the software can only be activated once? I've rebuilt several times with my retail copy of Win XP. Each time I've had to call for an authorization code, there isn't a problem. I have been under the impression I wouldn't be able to do this with an OEM license. Am I wrong?
 
[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Has anyone ever called Window's tech support? I called once years ago, but only because my OEM tech support was giving me the run-around. Of course, they told me they couldn't help me, and that was that.In 15+ years of Windows computing, that was the only time I ever even thought of calling Microsoft. I'm just wondering how often people do it. Does the average consumer buying that fancy box at Best Buy even know Microsoft has tech support? Besides resetting a user password, what reason could you have for calling them? I doubt they help with 3rd party drivers or software, which is what most people run anyway.[/citation]

I can't really comment on their tech support today, since it is primarily outsourced to India; however, I used to do tech support for Microsoft back in the days of Windows 95, 98, ME and I did XP support for the first couple years. We helped customers with OEM versions of Windows all the time, they just had to pay the $35 per incident fee (which is actually a smokin deal for tech support.) Also, we would NEVER reset passwords to get someone in to an account they locked themselves out of (for obvious security reasons), and the majority if the issues we dealt with involved third-party software/drivers. I can't tell you how many hours I spent installing drivers, fixing the TCP/IP stack after AOL's software broke it, or fixing WINSOCK keys due to third-party junk getting added. Microsoft has countless internal documents (we called them solution objects) on how to fix issues with third-party software which have nothing to do with a Windows problem.
 
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