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Windows 7 limited time upgrade discount starting tomorrow (June 26th)

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Darwin:
Crap - not available from the Canadian store yet (and I can't order through the US site - they check your "zip" code to calculate taxes and I don't have one!). Guess I'll try again mid next week.

Hirudin:
Whoa, apparently they "ran out" of discounted pre-sales in Japan!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/windows-7-pre-orders-sell-out-in-japan/

Innuendo:
I assume that "this is 'just a do it to be safe suggestion'" was meant to read 'this is not 'just a do it to be safe'"?-Darwin
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Grrr...synapses are getting old. :(

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. :: sigh ::

Carol Haynes:
Whoa, apparently they "ran out" of discounted pre-sales in Japan!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/windows-7-pre-orders-sell-out-in-japan/
-Hirudin (June 29, 2009, 05:13 AM)
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Do you get the impression it might be a marketting scam - only 3 copies available and they can say they sold out in less than 5 minutes ...

Hirudin:
I didn't think so, and the Engadget blurb suggested it was legit by saying...
While no numbers are given, the 17 retailers involved in the pre-order sales, who presumably have no vested interest in trying to inflate perceptions on behalf of Microsoft, report sales as "considerable"...
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The Engadget story has been updated...
Update: Engadget Japanese tells us that the 30,000 copies were sold according to Microsoft.
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