Amazon.com Software Store Introduces New Windows 7 for over 50 Percent off, Launches Resource Center for Windows 7, and Announces Release-Day Delivery
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the Amazon.com Software
Store (www.amazon.com/software)
is now offering Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system Home Premium
Upgrade and Professional Upgrade packages for $49.99 and $99.99, which
represent a savings of 50 percent and 58 percent from the suggested
retail price. Amazon.com customers can pre-order Windows 7 at these
prices now through July 11, while supplies last. Customers who pre-order
Windows 7 from Amazon.com can take advantage of the additional
convenience of receiving the product when it is released on October 22,
which means they can order from their PC or mobile device and receive
Windows 7 on the same day it’s released in physical stores.
"The Amazon.com Software Store is providing customers everything they
need to make an informed Windows 7 purchase decision, a chance to
purchase the software at a significant discount, and to be among the
first to get their hands on the product when it becomes available—all
without having to go to the store because orders will be delivered on
release day,” said Stacy Kerr, Director of the Amazon.com Software Store.
The new Amazon.com Resource Center for Windows 7 launched today at http://www.amazon.com/windows7,
offering customers in-depth information on the new operating system. The
Windows 7 Resource Center will be updated regularly with the latest
commentary from independent industry experts, as well as video
demonstrations of new features and customer forums.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web
Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS),
Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
and www.amazon.cn.
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Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
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expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
