How and where to preorder Windows 7 in Ireland?

Ilap7

Where is the best deal and do I need to buy computer with Vista first to be able to buy preorder?

j_lennon18

The cheapest i can find now since amazon upped there prices is @ eBuyer

http://www.ebuyer.com/special/1645?ref=dotd&hp_deal=10

£50 for Windows 7 Home Premium

£89.99 for Windows 7 Professional

Delivery to Ireland is £9.99

Iv never actually bought anything from them but i did register before and i remember i had problems entering an irish phone number. I had to enter my home number as:
3531X XXXXXX.

Im holding off buying tho untill i can find somewhere cheaper as the uk people are still getting it from £45 + free delivery from the likes of pcworld.co.uk.

probe

The product is available as a download - there should be no delivery charge using this method. Anyway it looks as if the pre-order offer is being withdrawn in Europe. No doubt they have run out of downloads!

Their French site just now says:

"Pré-commandes Windows 7 – L’offre promotionnelle spéciale n’est plus disponible"

A marketing con trick. Further underscoring Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system market.

probe

Ilap7 wrote: »

Where is the best deal and do I need to buy computer with Vista first to be able to buy preorder?

If you have a PC with XP you can use this. Should work fine. I have Windows 7 running on a probably 6/7 year old laptop. I took it out of storage, dusted it down, downloaded the 7 ISO image, and it installed in no time. Couldn't do that with Vista.... However my understanding is that you can't upgrade from XP to Windows 7 in the EU - you will have to do a clean install.

byte

probe wrote: »

The product is available as a download - there should be no delivery charge using this method. Anyway it looks as if the pre-order offer is being withdrawn in Europe. No doubt they have run out of downloads!

Their French site just now says:

"Pré-commandes Windows 7 – L’offre promotionnelle spéciale n’est plus disponible"

A marketing con trick. Further underscoring Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system market.

I was under the impression you get sent a physical disc?

Ilap7

j_lennon18 wrote: »

The cheapest i can find now since amazon upped there prices is @ eBuyer

http://www.ebuyer.com/special/1645?ref=dotd&hp_deal=10

£50 for Windows 7 Home Premium

£89.99 for Windows 7 Professional

Delivery to Ireland is £9.99

Iv never actually bought anything from them but i did register before and i remember i had problems entering an irish phone number. I had to enter my home number as:
3531X XXXXXX.

Im holding off buying tho untill i can find somewhere cheaper as the uk people are still getting it from £45 + free delivery from the likes of pcworld.co.uk.

Thanks lennon! I think I'll get my copy of Win7 from buyer.com It's 50% off so I don't believe that whenever it will be cheaper.

Capt'n Midnight

probe wrote: »

A marketing con trick. Further underscoring Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system market.

There is no need to hijack threads.
Microsoft make a lot of money and aren't as ethical as they could be.

get over it

rsl

I have been using Windows 7 pro beta version--- I would stick with XP .. really !!

alexmcred

Thanks Lennon Managed to pre-order a copy:)

Ilap7

alexmcred wrote: »

Thanks Lennon Managed to pre-order a copy:)

alexmcred, how did you manage that order on ebuyer.com? I can't register with my Irish landline

alexmcred

put in moble number in the second one 086xxxxxxx and in the first one mobile no. minus a digit. also had to use google checkout to pay for it.

Ilap7

alexmcred wrote: »

put in moble number in the second one 086xxxxxxx and in the first one mobile no. minus a digit. also had to use google checkout to pay for it.

Thank you for reply. Yes, with Google Checkout there's no problem with placing an order.
Thouh I still thinking to buy Win7 because I am worring that after clean installation I wonn't be able to find all drivers and programs from hardware manufacturers. I have only Dell CD with drivers. How to manage that?

Blazer

woohoo..thank god for my MSDN account....free, all free

kaizersoze

Sc@recrow wrote: »

woohoo..thank god for my MSDN account....free, all free

Indeed and of course MSDN accounts are also free....:rolleyes::p

Blazer

kaizersoze wrote: »

Indeed and of course MSDN accounts are also free....:rolleyes::p

they are for me..company pays for them

alexmcred

Ilap7 wrote: »

Thank you for reply. Yes, with Google Checkout there's no problem with placing an order.
Thouh I still thinking to buy Win7 because I am worring that after clean installation I wonn't be able to find all drivers and programs from hardware manufacturers. I have only Dell CD with drivers. How to manage that?

I'm running 7 pre release on an inspiron and have not had any driver issues. For my webcam I just plugged it in and it went and found drivers. Talking to my mate he just uses Vista drivers if something is not working correctly.

I have moved from Vista Ultimate to 7 64bit and the difference in my system is massive much faster than it ever was with vista and even 7 32 bit.

MarthaT

I got it from amazon uk