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Windows 7 pricing fails to impress

This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

Observers are irritated by Microsoft's pricing approach to Windows 7. Microsoft is making Windows 7 upgrades available for pre-order now, for the low, low (but not quite as low as Snow Leopard) price of $50. But after two weeks, it will cost you $120.

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Sporting segues to SQL Server
Brian Egler, SQL Server Strategies: This week the Wimbledon Tennis Championships are on again in London and I remember being inspired to write a blog entry on Spatial data types during that great Mens final last year. Is this possible? A segue from Wimbledon to SQL Server?

June Giveaways
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