Walmart pricing on Vista

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Dave Balcom

I went to the Walmart web site to see what they are doing with Vista.
They show the Ultimate upgrade is in stock with a price "too low to
display" -- requiring you put it in the cart to see the actual price.

The list price was $259.00 What was the secret pricing -- $258.88! That
is twelve whole cents below list... WOW!!! ;)
 
Wal-Mart... Rolling back high prices every day and creating thousands of
jobs in every town in America and the world. And that 12 cents saved on
Vista is just about how much per hour above the absolute minimum wage their
employees get paid.

Dale
 
Just shut the fu_k up you moron.

Dale said:
Wal-Mart... Rolling back high prices every day and creating thousands of
jobs in every town in America and the world. And that 12 cents saved on
Vista is just about how much per hour above the absolute minimum wage
their employees get paid.

Dale
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Dale said:
Wal-Mart... Rolling back high prices every day and creating thousands of
jobs in every town in America and the world. And that 12 cents saved on
Vista is just about how much per hour above the absolute minimum wage
their employees get paid.

Dale
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Funny, I work at Wal-Mart and get paid quite a bit above minimum wage . . .
and I just started a few months ago . . . where did you get the idea that
Wal-Mart pays <paraphrased> "just about 12 cents above the minimum wage?"

It's a great place to work, everyone is helpful, management is accessible
even to the newest/lowest of employees and it's helping me make ends
overlap, not just meet.

Don't believe all the negative 'crap' you see in the press, they treat their
employees very well . . . and yes, Wal-Mart DOES offer benefits to their
employees. Medical, stock options and others . . . just read up on it and
ignore all the attacks on the company, which by the way, stem from the
simple fact that Wal-Mart doesn't want (or need) a union.

If it was such a horrible place to work, why are there so many (I'm figuring
at least a few dozen out of the 250 average working there) that have been
there for 10+ years???

At any rate, I'm not happy that they are only carrying the upgrade versions
in the stores (would have loved to use my discount on the full version of
Ultimate) but oh well . . .

Mic
 
To each his own, then.

Dale

Michael Palumbo said:
Funny, I work at Wal-Mart and get paid quite a bit above minimum wage . .
. and I just started a few months ago . . . where did you get the idea
that Wal-Mart pays <paraphrased> "just about 12 cents above the minimum
wage?"

It's a great place to work, everyone is helpful, management is accessible
even to the newest/lowest of employees and it's helping me make ends
overlap, not just meet.

Don't believe all the negative 'crap' you see in the press, they treat
their employees very well . . . and yes, Wal-Mart DOES offer benefits to
their employees. Medical, stock options and others . . . just read up on
it and ignore all the attacks on the company, which by the way, stem from
the simple fact that Wal-Mart doesn't want (or need) a union.

If it was such a horrible place to work, why are there so many (I'm
figuring at least a few dozen out of the 250 average working there) that
have been there for 10+ years???

At any rate, I'm not happy that they are only carrying the upgrade
versions in the stores (would have loved to use my discount on the full
version of Ultimate) but oh well . . .

Mic
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Dave Balcom said:
I went to the Walmart web site to see what they are doing with Vista.
They show the Ultimate upgrade is in stock with a price "too low to
display" -- requiring you put it in the cart to see the actual price.

The list price was $259.00 What was the secret pricing -- $258.88! That
is twelve whole cents below list... WOW!!! ;)
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Personally, I would wait to get Vista until they work out the bugs in it. MS
has already stated they will probably release the SP1 for it later this
year, that doesn't sound to good to be honest.
 
Vista SP1 is due out the same time that Longhorn Server goes RTM. So what
does that have to do with the release of Vista to Retail?
 
It is buggy big time, like XP was in its release, but this time MS
acknowledges these bugs, as opposed to what they didn't in XPs RTM. I am
suggesting that most would want to wait until they come out with the SP1.
Considering everything out there for support (especially drivers), and as
little as there is for Vista, it would be prudent to wait until then anyway.
 
"buggy big time" ? I have been running Vista RTM (Right now I'm running
Business) since the middle of Nov 06 and Vista runs fine. I just don't see
"buggy big time"
 
The reason SP1 is scheduled for later this year has nothing to do with bugs.
Vista and Longhorn Server are built on the same codebase and need to keep in
step with each other. Since LH is scheduled for release later this year,
Vista will be brought forward with SP1 at the same time in order support the
changes to the codebase reflected in LH code development between Vista
launch and LH rtm. Both will then be at service pack level 1. The next
service pack for both will then be SP2 even though there will never be a
standalone SP1 for LH.
 
In two and a half months with Vista Ultimate x64 rtm I have not seen a blue
screen or anything else to suggest bigtime bugginess either. I remember
what XP was like in the first few months and Vista is like a breath of fresh
air.
 
As a side note, the same thing is happening now with XP 64. XP 64 is based
on Server2003 SP1. As soon as Server 2003 SP2 goes RTM, XP 64 will be at SP2
as well. You will never see SP1 for XP 64.
 
The restrictions are probably the same as restrictions with a full priced
OEM version, but I suspect these versions are not tied to a particular
machine, how can they when they have no idea which model it will be
installed on. But for people who want to save a few bucks, go for it.
 
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