vistaa release date

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Steven Wabik said:
when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?
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The last estimate I saw was Feuary.
Price hasn't been determined yet.
 
The Public Beta will be Available in 3-4 Weeks, followed by a February 2007
Release for RTM.
 
I could see
$89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if
you do not have a current XP license.
 
where do you get your information? RTM is October. That is when they start
pressing cds and make it available to computer manufaturers and Original
Equipment Manufacturers. The general public can get it on new computers and
on store shelves in January/February 2007. Get your information straight
JUNIOR!!!!! Better yet go find Kevin and this new guy wandering around.
 
Jim Fraas said:
I could see
$89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if
you do not have a current XP license.
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My bet is

$99 Vista Basic Upgrade
$199 Vista Basic full Retail
$199 Vista Premium Upgrade
$299 Vista Premium Full Retail
$299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade
$399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail


$199 per year Vista Business
$99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and
$199 for smaller numbers of seats.

Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be
street prices for Vista Enterprise.

Todd
 
We'll have to wait and see :o)

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yea we will have to wait. i hope the prices for the OS will be reasonable
for each version.
 
They'll be reasonable considering inflation in the last five years and the
work that went into it.

And everybody will bitch about them, probably including me.
 
My tenetive plans are to get Word 2007 and Vista Premium .
I am budgeting $300 for rthe upgrade licenses.
 
Agreed, although Mr. Ballmer did say it should be pretty much the same as
current versions.
Did you know that XP MCE is a premium version of Windows XP? If there was a
retail version of the product, it would actually cost $350 - more than XP
Professional. I find that strange, knowing that XP MCE 2005 does not include
Domain Join and Group Policy features, not unless you upgrade from XP MCE
2002 or 2004.
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sure.

the oem installation that comes preinstalled when you get the pc will have
some pro features disabled. i had to reimage my media center laptop once.
since it shows as pro edition when it is installing it will give you the
option to join domains and stuff. reimaging the pc comes at a cost though.
you will loose a few oem stuff unless you know how to restore them from the
installation CDs that came with your pc. i lost one of the oem games i think
but i never liked it anyways. reimaging the pc also gives you the option of
enabling extra features that you want and disabling features you don't want.
like iTunes for example. iTunes comes preinstalled. if you try to uninstall
it it will mess up other applications. when you reimage the pc it will give
you the option of not installing it because the application restore CDs will
let you pick what you want to install and what you do not want to install.
there is also another way to enable those two missing features as well but i
am not going into that yet. reimaging the pc also will enable the windows xp
encrypt data feature, in which in my opinion is not worth it. there are also
other pro features that can be enabled as well. its all in what options and
stuff you choose when you are configuring the pc durring the install and
stuff. there are also stuff in the add/remove windows commonents that you
can change around to get what you want. but you should configure thst before
installing updates for the os.
 
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