Windows 7 overpriced

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I am not proud to say but I was running a version of windows that would not let me get most of the updates, I wont say anything more, hey atleast im being honest? lol.. Anyway I got really sick of not being able to get updates to the point where I am ready to buy it, I thought that it was around 70-80$ because when it first came out I have some friends and family who got it for like 50-80$ I didn't realize that they got a special deal, I go to look at the prices, 140-200$??!?!! I was about ready to buy it when I saw the price, I know its worth it to a lot of people who can afford it but money is scarce after paying all my bills. I am running windows vista 64 bit that came with my dell that I used to have and I recently just switched back to it from w7, it is depressing not having windows7 anymore. So I was wondering if there are any deals out there right now, or in the near future where windows 7 will be cheaper, I honestly think microsoft would have a lot less pirates if they dropped the price a bit even to like 80$ or 90$ I could buy a new cpu and motherboard for the price of windows 7 lol.

What are your thoughts on this? please dont talk smack.

Thanks..

oh and 1 more thing, what are the performance differences between vista 64 and 7 64?? is it much?
 
Wow I just installed the vista home disk that I purchased and now my computer is restarting at random times for no reason, I tried switching video card drivers, it didn't do anything... There's always gotta be somethen
 
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