After recently hearing about an amazing offer for Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2007 through a website called http://www.win741.com/, I was ready to make my purchase. The offer states that you can pick up a copy of Windows 7 Professional Edition for $64.95 or Microsoft Office Ultimate Edition for $59.95.
As I prepared for my purchase, I noticed that I had never been on a Microsoft page for any part of the shopping process. The actual purchase is being sent through a store at Digital River (DRI). DRI, it seems is a reseller of software that represents over 60,000 companies.
None of this seems too far off. Microsoft may just want to move out some of their inventory and creating a generation of users from the college level seems like a savvy idea. But something is still a little off.
After a digging a little more into DRI, I came across some things that have caused me to pause and, as of now, stop my plans to purchase the software. There are hunderds of posts of difficulties in getting the software, missing pieces of file downloads and, scariest of all, a long list of fraudulent credit card charges (http://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/Lbt3GUJkxQAEXAjLmajbig).
All of this has turned a potential great deal into something that is just not worth it for me. $65 for Windows 7 is great, endangering my credit rating and bank account is not so great. I am not sure if Windows 741 is even 1% scam but it is a deal that I am going to be passing on.
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