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Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP1

Posted by kdawson on from the pricing-is-an-art dept.

Chris Blanc writes "The new Service Pack 1 version of Windows Vista allows end users to purchase the 'upgrade edition' and install it on any PC — with no need to purchase the more expensive 'full edition.' The same behavior was present when Vista was originally released, but the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers."

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  1. mo3 down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sling, re'turn it to

  2. Fago8z by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    of a solid dose I thought it 3as my

  3. Ep!!*W!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    These early you join today! As fiitingly BUWLA, or BSD

  4. Re:Sophistication by Add_Water · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Salesman: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye

  5. Re:Sophisticated Buyers by Moryath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There were people who were perfectly happy with a Geo Metro, but I figured a car with better gas mileage AND more power than a go-kart engine was probably the way to go.

    Next analogy, anyone?

  6. Re:Sophistication? by frogzilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Did he teach you to talk to people too? You must be quite a pair.

  7. Re:Alternatively by xtracto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or what about the guy with the signature stating that you should a write some sort of generalization about Americans...

    Although I have never seen that work... lets see

    All Americans come from the worst part of the continent.

    --
    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'