Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft, Commercial, Beta, Windows x64
Microsoft to OEMs: cut off free Vista to Windows 7 upgrades at 25
by Lee Mathews Jun 29th 2009
Fast forward, and now we know that the rock-bottom price is for pre-orders only and retail copies will set you back $119.99 for Home Premium and $199.99 for Professional. That's only $10 less than Vista upgrades ran initially, and hardly what I'd call aggressive.
Further disappointing news is that Microsoft has now instructed OEMs to cap free upgrades on volume purchase at 25 units. While that's plenty of room for smaller businesses, it's a sharp two-finger salute to medium and large business.
Four small businesses can get 100 free upgrades, but your large enterprise has to pay for the extra 75?
Ouch.
That's not really the kind of announcement that will make IT administrators jump at the chance to get new metal running Windows 7.
[via Daily Tech]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
