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Windows Vista Prices and Release Date Leaked
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."
So our "authority" is a man from Microsoft Monitor Weblog that is owned by Jupitermedia, not Microsoft. And he's speculating that these are the leaked prices. Has anyone stopped and thought that if Amazon is posting these, that they probably weren't leaked? Or maybe the fact that Amazon constantly offers products and pushes back the release date means that these aren't the real release dates?
What I'm guessing is that these are estimates for the release date but it will most likely be pushed back and that these prices are correct and direct from Microsoft. Intentional, though, not 'leaked.'
My work here is dung.
That's the important one!
My sig sucks.
I want to see the OEM version prices. Nobody here normally pays full retail price for Windows.
remove "full retail price" from your comment, and you would be closer to the mark.
whether its the stellar video driver support, or the fantastic sound card support, to the plethora of games and business apps that all work flawlessly without hours of tweaking.... you're right, linux kicks ass.
In real money:
Windows Vista Ultimate 22.9 g / gold
Windows Vista Business 18 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Premium 14.2 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Basic 12.3 g / gold
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 14.2 g/ gold
Windows Vista Business Upgrade 12.3 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade 9.4 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade 6.1 g / gold
That's a lot of gold arrrrrr.
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Does anybody outside of Microsoft actually care about Vista? WinXP is fairly stable, it runs all the software (or nearly all of it) developed for every version of Windows since Win95. Also, WinXP does not have perverted-control-freak class DRM embedded into it, like Vista does/will. Personally I view Vista as a significant downgrade from WinXP - it will negatively affect the utility offered by a Windows computer.
Just go to Amazon and see the prices in USD.
Wow $399.00 for the Operating System... and, how much is the hardware?, and what can this Operating System can do?
I guess we (in Mexico) will continue to get it the Aye! way, it would be stupid to think that people will pay $400 for Windows when they payed $300 for the computer.
Ha!
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
that way they can release all the required patches on the same day.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
The windows pricing is a classic example of what marketeers call "market segmentation". When deciding how to price a product, you ask "How much will people pay?", and the answer is different people will pay different prices - some people actually want to pay more for essentially the same product.
It is an increasingly unpopular pricing method because people resent it. Note, for instance, the rapid growth of budget airlines (in Europe at least) - a lot of their popularity can be put down to the fact the traditional pricing model for flights was highly segmented - customers have come to resent paying different prices for essentially the same thing and so the budget airlines, with their simpler pricing model, have grown in popularity.
It is interesting that Apple do not do this, they don't even have separate "upgrade" prices. If you want the latest version of their OS or basic software (iWorks or iLife), then you pay one price. As a customer I like that.
They want me to pay $450 for something that will almost certainly force me to upgrade some bits of hardware to give it a chance of running, will potentially fail to run some of my software and in return does what exactly? Look pretty whilst constantly asking me if I'm sure?
Call me negative but I'm not exactly in hurry to join that particular queue.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Why are there so few of them? I want a copy that customized for me.
I can't wait to watch tech support with all of these versions floating around.
User: "I have Windows Vista, and I want to do x, can I? How do I?"
Tech: "Uhhhh...god. Ummmm, what version of Vista do you have?"
User: "Version, what version? It's Vista."
Tech: "Is it Home Basic, Home Premium, Homosexual, Gamer, Business, Business Gamer, I Think I'm Running A Business But Might Be Delusional, OpenVista, NetVista, Free...oh wait, Ultimate?"
User: "It's Home...I think."
Tech: "Which Home?"
User: "I just want to do some network stuff. sob-sob-sob"
Tech: "Is it 9:00am yet? I need a drink."
More like:
Windows Vista Ultimate 1 leg 1 arm
Windows Vista Business 1 leg 1 ear
Windows Vista Home Premium 1 arm 3 toes
Windows Vista Home Basic 1 eye 1 ear (you won't be getting Aero anyway)
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 1 arm 4 toes
Windows Vista Business Upgrade 1 arm
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade 1 ear 3 toes 2 fingers
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade 1 eye
All prices include your soul.
I say we just grow up, be adults and die.
Wouldn't it be more useful to list the prices in a gold currency that most people here probably have, like WoW gold? Currently the exchange rate seems to be 0.173 USD per gold, which makes Windows Vista Ultimate come out to about 2600 gold (US servers).
>Apple releases an OS, and the service packs as another OS
total BS.
Tiger gives you Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator etc.
are you saying MS gives these "service pack features" for free? NO, that's what you're paying for Vista for (except you don't get Automator).
MS service packs give you features that Apple include in the first place, such as a firewall and the ability to go on the internet for more than 12 minutes.
Apple service packs are free (security updates and "minor" program updates).
Also Apple only sells full OS versions. if 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 didn't interest you then you can go straight from 10.0 to 10.5 for the same single low price (10.1 was free). Apple releasing more often gives users options about when to update. for MS users the choice is between a very expensive OS or a less expensive but feature-crippled version.
Also the OS X licence requires no activation and is legal to use on several computers (not sure the exact number since I only have 1 anyway).
Vista Ultimate: $399
Mac OS X: $599. To be fair, there is a Mac Mini bundled with.
I work at a VAR and went thru a very long and convoluted email exchange with Microsoft about this.
The end result is: OEM is tied to a computer. However, you can change anything except the motherboard, and it's still the same computer. You can also exchange the board if it's due to a 'defect'.
And 'defects'... well, accidents happen. It's a dangerous world.
Only drawback is that once you do change motherboard, you are required to activate the copy over the phone, and if it was a big-name OEM (those that don't normally ask for product key when you use the recovery disc), you may have to replace the key that's on the OEM sticker with a replacement issued by MS phone support. But in the end, the license is still valid - as long as the board swap was due to 'defect' (or, essentially, if you lie it was due to a defect). So in reality OEM is transferrable, if you know what you are doing.
Slightly modified to mantain it on topic
[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler
[Th3No0b] Im going to burn all the MS-Windows servers and 1 BSD server
[RageAgainsttheAmish] why the BSD server
[Th3No0b] See? no one cares about Windows
[RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'