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MS Trying To Spur Vista Sales With Discounts

Posted by kdawson on from the wee-mite-desperate dept.

Ang writes "Is Microsoft having worries about selling Vista already? Ars reports that Microsoft has announced yet another 'discount program' for Vista, but these new discounts work out to only about 10% off list price — not much when you notice that retailers already sell Vista below list. To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount built around Vista Ultimate in some situations. Ars spends seven paragraphs explaining this convoluted offer. Is all of this complexity supposed to help sell Vista?" If you must buy Vista, it might be advisable to sit on your wallet for a while. The discounts are bound to get sweeter.

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  1. ATTN: COWARDS! by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still looking for a the off button on your life when life instead should be lived to the max? If you can't deal with the joys of life, go back to your mother's basement. Life isn't designed for pale, spineless people.

    1. Re:ATTN: COWARDS! by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You may have to view the website at to -1 to understand who I'm responding to ;)

  2. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by Stormwatch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Macs don't have a Maximize button? If they don't let me use the full screen for what I want to use it for, I'm never going to go to Mac.
    Actually it makes more sense for a window not go full-screen: the Mac interface has this emphasis on drag-and-drop. For example, select some text and drag it to the desktop. What happens? I'm not sure about Windows, but on a Mac, this creates a text clipping file.
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  3. Re:Keep on waiting... by nacturation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's called a "console". They even come with special keyboards you can hold in your hand. Ding ding ding! It looks like you're the lucky caller number three who pointed out the obvious!

    If only people would read between the lines. If only...
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