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Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150
ozmanjusri writes "Dell has tripled the charge to upgrade Vista PCs to XP. Under current licensing 'downgrade' agreements, system builders can install XP Pro instead of Vista Business or Vista Ultimate; however, Dell has opted for a surcharge of $150 over the price of Vista for the older but more popular XP Professional operating system. Rob Enderle says the downgrade fees could potentially be disastrous for Microsoft: 'The fix for this should be to focus like lasers on demand generation for Vista but instead Microsoft is focusing aggressively on financial penalties," says Enderle. 'Forcing customers to go someplace they don't want to go by raising prices is a Christmas present for Apple and those that are positioning Linux on the desktop.'"
No, it's not. Period.
I was going to write a long drawn out essay on it, but then I realised that you wont listen and you'll just post some crap like "it's an upgrade lawlz!!!11!!1one"
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
Vista is to Microsoft as dBase 4 was to Ashton-Tate, a stinking turd. dBase had competition from alternative database vendors and paid the price for producing a turd. Microsoft has almost no competition and can effectively extort money from users for a downgrade as they try to escape this turd.
Microsoft can spray all the marketing turd polish they want on Vista but it will still stink. Hopefully, enough people will migrate to Linux or Apple that Microsoft will go the way of Ashton-Tate (I'm hoping but I'm not holding my breath).
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
I'm glad that Geek Squad gig is working out for you, Timmy.