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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.'"
Blackmail is such an ugly word...
I prefer "extortion." The "X" makes it sound cool
Well, since it's an upgrade, it's only fair that people should pay more, right?
XP is three times more valuable than Vista.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint! It'll leave $LAST_VERSION utterly in the shade.
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in $CURRENT_VERSION has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF. We have to charge them more for $PREVIOUS_VERSION, to get them to understand just how cool $NEXT_VERSION will be.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
The biggest inconvenience is having to show up at a dell depot so the can bend you over a desk.
is Rob Enderle right about something?
Do you have ESP?
This is how it will probably go :)
Mac: Hello, I'm a mac
PC: And I'm a PC.
Mac: So PC, I heard that people are now paying THREE TIMES more for XP then they were before, just to avoid Vista!
PC: Hold on a second Mac, I'm installing some updates and I have to reboot.
Mac: Ok..
PC: Alright be right ba-
Stop 0x0000001e (c000009a 80123f36 02000000 00000246)
Unhandled Kernel exception c000009a from 8123f26
Address 80123f36 has base at 80100000 - ntoskrnl.exe
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Oh, I don't think it's blackmail.
I think for it to be blackmail, there would have to be a formal letter.
Maybe he's just drunk... really drunk.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
I am using Vista on a netbook, a 19 inch Eee with only 8 core 2 duo chips and 16GB of memory, and it's fantastic. I don't know what all you people are complaining about, saying it's "slow" and "fat."
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No, I be new here!
I got some bad grammar
The UI isn't better performing or less cluttered. It's prettier. How do you quantify prettier?
*chuckle* That card already got played. I have a screenshot of the HP page for a laptop. It has a line that says:
"Upgrade to genuine Windows Vista Ultimate for $99 ($60 value)"
I know what they mean, but I couldn't stop myself from thinking "I can't wait to run out and spend $99 on something I value at $60!"
I don't expect morality, equality, consistency, or justice from the law. I expect only legality.
Well, for me the shiny UI is actually useful when I'm trying to find one of about 15 or 20 windows I have open at any given time. All the little windows thumbnails everywhere are dead useful. Aside from that I particularly enjoy the built in incremental backup functionality that is built into ultimate and having search/indexing functionality that actually works and is fast(xp's search never seemed to find anything). Sure, its not the leap that Microsoft promised, some things improved, some things got a little worse, and some things are just different. But in general more things got better than got worse. Thats the way software usually is.
And you can qualify this statement with evidence? I can attest to the fact that this comment of your is patently false, and that is through extensive experience on vista using 1, 2 and 4 gigs of ram on different machines.
To put it simply: You sir, are full of shit.
You should try a magic plant, to keep the angrys away.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I believe you just created the beginnings of an infinite loop of irony and smug.
I have a trash can that has a nice big Microsoft "Designed for Windows XP" compatibility badge on it.
;-)
Smart people influence the stupid people, eh? Sorry, but explain eight years of Bush to me then.
You haven't been influenced yet? :P
DATABASE WOW WOW
But Vista is pretty, and then it crashes...
How much was the Mojave upgrade? It's spoken so highly of on TV by real experts. Yes sir, it sounds like MS really hit the mark with that one.
-- Posted from my parent's basement
Not this time - you're dealing with the endlessly witty hivemind of Slashdot.
Calling Vista a downgrade the first time was such a hoot that they can't resist repeating it once a day until I feel like my eyes are actually vomiting from reading it.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
I'm tired of the "people are stupid" argument.
Become an educator.
Just callin' it like I see it.
LOLOLOL YOU FUCKING DUMBASSS!
-signed a slashdotter who has been here 8 years and has NEVER been bitten by the 'check anonymously' bug
If you throw a wad of paper in there while holding the Shift key, does it disappear forever?
:D
Now *THAT* would be cool to see.
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
A 64-Bit OS that can address my 8GB of RAM and has drivers supplied for it by almost every company? I dunno, that's why I put vista-64 on my latest Desktop. I use it mostly to run office and VM-workstation with windows server products as a testing environment (and several flavors of linux).
With a 9800GT, a Phenom 9650, and 2 SATA disks with 8GB of ram, it seems to run fine to me.
(My laptop runs Linux, my macbook runs OSX)
Grandpa: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.
I didn't realize until reading this thread, but I still have not actually seen this Vista thingy on a real operating PC.
Work is all XP, the WOW computer is XP even though it was just bought this summer as a Dell FreeDos box, and I'm posting from a Mac running Tiger. (It's too old to benefit from Leopard.)
How long has Vista been out? I guess it's non-existence anywhere around me is just another indication of how foobar it really is.
From the summary:
Wow. This many years and y'all still believe in Santa Claus?
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
Little known fact: when you light a matchstick, it sounds like "shift" :)