Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

10 of 329 comments (clear)

  1. ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Still looking for the "maximize" button when your Mac has "zoom" instead? If you can't deal with multiple windows at once, go back to your PC. Macs weren't designed for one-track minds.

    1. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by WilliamSChips · · Score: -1, 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.

      --
      Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
    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.
      --
      Circumcision is child abuse.
    3. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by gripen40k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I don't think you are getting the point, if I want to view something fullscreen, I better damn well be able to. And how does viewing say, a picture fullscreen, have to do with drag and drop?

      --
      Har?
  2. Re:Costco... by qardinal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Costco likes looking at Lindsay Lohan's boobs, here they are popping out of her shirt

    --
    ---- http://qardinal.blogspot.com/2007/03/lindsay-lohan -celebrity-nude-photos.html
  3. 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 ;)

  4. ATTN: SWITCHEURS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Still looking for the "maximize" button when your Mac has "zoom" instead? If you can't deal with multiple windows at once, go back to your PC. Macs weren't designed for one-track minds.

  5. MACs are for the simple minded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And they cost more. So they are for idiots.

  6. 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...
    --
    Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.