Assuming the memo is legitimate and accurate, Best Buy will allow customers to preorder Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for $99.99 from end of June.

If these prices are recommended retail prices, and not a special Best Buy discount offer (the 16 days might suggest otherwise), then what it could mean is Microsoft will be taking quite an aggressive Windows 7 pricing strategy. The original retail price of Vista Home Premium Upgrade was $129.95 and Vista Business Upgrade (nearest equivalent of Professional) was $199.95, ~60% and 50% cheaper respectively.

Long Zheng has the details: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090606/best-buy-memo-leaks-windows-7-pricing/

Wow I would love an upgrade to Windows 7. I am already using Windows 7 right now, I feels more intuitive as a whole as compared to Windows Vista.

We have confirmed the date with Microsoft, and have received this helpful definition: “General Availability (GA) is when consumers can actually purchase the software and PCs with the software preinstalled.” Also, “release to manufacturing” (RTM), when the finished software is given to computer makers to pre-load on new machines, takes place in “late July,” presumably over a matter of weeks.

http://gizmodo.com/5275938/windows-7-to-be-released-october-22

Microsoft has confirmed it! Ars has more at http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/windows-7-arrives-on-october-22.ars

Windows 7 is the operating system that I am using right now and I would say that it is really stable.