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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. WTF happened to /. ? by MagicBox · · Score: -1, Troll

    For a short time I thought it was really cool.

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    The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid. Fcuknig amzanig eh!
  2. Sophistication? by redelm · · Score: -1, Troll
    This logic is sound and it reveals that MS execs thing sophisticated users can be attracted to MS-Windows-Vista.

    I would contend the more sophisticated the user, the further they are from attractable to Vista: the most sophisticated users do not use MS products, preferring Linux or *BSD. Less sophisticated users who use MS-Windows (with greater reluctance at greater sophistication) prefer different versions of MS-Windows -- 3.51 revered by those who still run it, 2001 cherished in spite of few updates, and XP clung to as a lifesaver.

    Only masochists and reviewers migrate to Vista. Many peole suffer with it bundled.

    1. Re:Sophistication? by GbrDead · · Score: 0, Troll

      Actually, it does matter when by using a specific operating system and software you support an abusive monopolist which holds the entire computing world back.

      Oh, and... fuck you, too.

    2. Re:Sophistication? by SkuzBuket · · Score: -1, Troll

      Fuck you. My dad started teaching me about computers when I was only 5, and I have been huge into them ever since.

      So, how have you been these past three years?

  3. Gotta be true. Typical microsoft way after all : by unity100 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Screwing other customers to make a product more appealing to some other group.

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  4. Special Deal. by Mactrope · · Score: -1, Troll

    Special is another word for paytard, isn't it?

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  5. i'll pass by Dan667 · · Score: -1, Troll

    The more I hear about Vista the less I want it. In fact, I think I will just skip it all together.

  6. Re:Ahhh upgrade... by Teflon_Jeff · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't need to upgrade, XP is already superior to Vista.

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  7. Re:Alternatively by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ok. Thanks for the tip, Shakrai. Hey, by the way, where did you get that name from? It sounds like a name that someone, who doesn't know what the fuck a bar of soap is, and who lives in some fucking 3rd world, cow-worshiping country, might use.

    Well, this isn't a popular view either, but what the hell - you claim the disclaimer is so effective.

    Ok, so how long until I get modded down?

  8. Microdot by krelian · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't think there is any other site in existence that covers Microsoft as throughly as slashdot. Hell, their are more Microsoft posts then Linux posts.

    Slashdot has become a twisted version of a Microsoft fan site only instead of attracting fellow fans the goal of all these posts is so that everyone and his grandmother can repeat the same old washed up anti Microsoft slogans.

    Aren't you bored already?

  9. Re:Sophisticated Buyers by drsmithy · · Score: -1, Troll

    My understanding was that the pervasive DRM in Vista has unacceptable impact on non-DRM aspects of the operating system. Such as throttling network traffic whilst playing unencumbered MP3s.

    Your understanding is wrong.