Did you know that there is no legal way to buy Windows 7 Ultimate yet in Israel? Almost a month after the official announcement you can find Win7 Home Premium edition in every possible retail store. But what about the Ultimate edition? Release, upgrade, anything? Nada. I'm really disappointed of this weird distribution policy and can't understand why Microsoft is holding back the black boxes and doesn't sell them together with the green ones. The disrespect towards the Vista Ultimate users willing to upgrade is very strange. Is that a punishment for choosing the most powerful edition of the operating system back then?
For the 1st time since Windows 3.11 I didn't get the new operating system RTM as a beta developer, MSDN subscriber, etc. For the 1st time in many many years I went to the computer and office stores to buy the new OS release. This is kinda embarrassing experience :-) especially when you can't buy it. Only Home Premium, what a pity. Microsoft online store doesn't sell outside the US. Big local retail chains don't even have a schedule for the Ultimate edition sales. Small local shops have an OEM version of Win7 Ulitmate with the license to install it on new computers only. Yes, some of them would sell you an OEM version as a retail but it doesn't make much sense for me to pay for an illegal license.
In other words, I'm stuck and waiting. Hope I can upgrade my development computer soon and the MegaEPG Windows 7 support activity will be resumed.