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MS Offers Vista Upgrade Pricing To All

Posted by kdawson on from the sultan-Bill's-house-of-software dept.

SlinkySausage writes "With a vague whiff of desperation, Microsoft is offering anyone who downloaded one of the betas or release candidates of Vista upgrade pricing for the full version. The 'special' deal is a sweetener for the fact that the betas will start expiring and becoming non-functional from May 31st. APC Magazine in Australia writes: 'Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a "closing down" sale... All stock has been slashed, save $$$, why pay more?'" Perhaps Microsoft is cognizant of straws in the wind such as a recent InformationWeek survey indicating that 30% of business have no intention of moving to Vista, ever.

8 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. Cue Knee Jerk by WED+Fan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now, all of the knee-jerk Anti-MS guys have to get new keyboards after their collective orgasms when they see this as a sign of Microsofts soon-to-be demise.

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  2. Re:Hmm by Himring · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Repeating a lie a thousand times will not make it true.

    Disagree. Or do you believe the holocaust really did happen?...

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    "All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
  3. Re:Hmm by pallmall1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...but not slowly than Ubuntu users are upgrading to the last Fety thingy
    Linux users are not forced to upgrade like Windows users are.
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    3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
  4. Re:The curse of Vista... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everyone I know loves it, you can shut up now.

  5. Re:If this was Apple... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, listen, there really were WMDs in Iraq. If they would just have let us torture a few more people, we'd have found them.

    GWB

  6. (snif) you don't have predatory pricing with linux by swschrad · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the only way to look at vista is DOWN...

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
  7. Re:Hmm by Himring · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My moderation points come with a blurb explaining to mod up instead of down.

    How was this flamebait? Repeating lies is very effective. It's done daily in American politics, and one of the all time best examples is the lie that the Jewish Holocaust never happened. If this is still flamebait then explain to me how....

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    "All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
  8. Re:Remembering the Windows XP days: it wasnt this by Macthorpe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've heard Linux called "a pile of festering shit".

    In other news, wishing doesn't make it so :P

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    "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien