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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.

4 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. OH MAH AGOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRST PZT FSKRS

  2. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    boing!

  3. Re:Cue Knee Jerk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whereas you shills already have sperm-resistant covers
    on your keyboards, just in case you catch a glimpse of
    monkey-boy Balmer on MSN (your homepage).

    Don't squirt on me! Yuk!

  4. Re:Remembering the Windows XP days: it wasnt this by Foolhardy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenGL was supported since around NT 3.51 (long before full Direct3d on NT). For games that used OpenGL + MCI for sound, NT was a fine platform for gaming. For example, the original Unreal runs great on NT 3.51.