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Windows Vista Prices and Release Date Leaked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-that-stuff-quiet-if-you-don't-want-us-to-know dept.

Nieske writes "Prices and the release date for Windows Vista have leaked online. Ed Bott's Microsoft Report has information on pricing, and the release date is currently January 30th, 2007. Are they really going to make the deadline this time?" From the ZDNet article: "In Canada, at least, the rumors of a 'modest' price increase were true, based on this list. Will these same relative prices hold true in the U.S.? Who knows? But if they do, then it's mostly good news for Windows customers. There's no price increase for Home Basic. Home Premium, the Vista version that maps most closely to the OEM-only Windows XP Media Center Edition, will finally be available as a retail product for a slight bump over the Home Basic product, similar to the $39 premium typically charged by large OEMs for Media Center upgrades. And Vista Business buyers will get a break with a small discount relative to XP Professional."

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  1. Now by PrinceAshitaka · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    More than ever, do I love Linux.

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  2. Re:Not Quite by truthsearch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This site is "News for Nerds", not "Investigative Journalism for Nerds". Please take your insightful comments elsewhere. We're not used to our journalists thinking. If our news outlets actually thought before posting information the world would be a very different place. And different is scary.

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  3. Math Skillz by idsofmarch · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The updates to Tiger including changes in services, security updates, etc and not changes to desktop artwork, but it's easier just to parrot the idiocy of the first poster. Furthermore, assuming you paid full price for each and every version of OSX, you would have spent $645.00 (US), including a copy of Leopard. This is of couse, assuming you paid full price for 10.1 which almost no one did because 10.0 was free and the 10.1 update came on a CD for $30. So in reality, the cost of keeping OSX up to date from 2001 until 2007 would be $546.00 (US).

    In other words, your math skills suck, but good for you that you use Ubuntu. I mean, you can't add for shit, but hey you use Ubuntu. Here's a cookie.

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