Window 7 Success: Good OS or Big Discounts

We already knew that Windows 7 would see healthy sales and according to NPD Group, a market researcher, the latest OS from Microsoft has shifted 234 percent more copies than Vista did in its first few days of release. There are a number of reasons for this, but what are they.

PC World thought that they would try to offer us an insight in to this and have come up with two good reasons. The first is that Windows 7 is a good OS; the second could be due to the big discounts that customers were offered.

We know that there had been a massive media hype surrounding the launch of Windows 7, but we also know that it is much improved over Vista. However, as with all Windows operating system launches, Windows 7 has been dogged by install problems.

Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade is currently being offered for $76, the normal price is $120. Windows 7 Pro Upgrade should be $200 but is currently $147. We have to wonder if Microsoft was not offering these huge discounts, would they have sifted as many copies, I believe the answer would be no.

I would not normally purchase a new Windows OS until the first service pack was introduced, which is what I did with Vista. However, I was forced into the upgrade because of the fantastic price that Amazon tempted me with.

Let us know if the lower price made you purchase Windows 7 before you would have done.