What should Vista be priced at?

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Yet to be determined but statements from MS indicates a similar price
structure to XP. The catch is that there are several new sku's so it is
hard to guess those.
 
This comming from Steve Balmer.

It will cost what you're accustomed paying for. Student and teacher editions
is replaced by Vista Home Edition. Office has various product pricing. I
didn't understood what he said about Windows Live.
 
I just had a look at the PC World UK site

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...nericEditorial&genericeditorial=windows_vista

and at £154.99 for the basic home version, I think there is going to have
to be an awful lot of piracy going on, this is simply total greed, I would be
happy enough, as an home user, to pay up to around £100, but that is
ludicrous, how on earth Microsoft can complain about piracy is beyond belief,
if this is genuine, then I am going to burn my copy of RC1 without even
installing it, what a total rip-off!! I think I might have to use Windows
98SE on my Dual Core PC!!
 
I already have full legal copies of both XP Pro and XP Pro 64, XP Pro is fine
enough, but however Microsoft can even warrant charging anything at all for
XP 64 is beyond my comprehension, my Philips Webcam, (MICROSOFT) Fingerprint
Reader, HP Scanner, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc. etc etc. simply do
not work with it, again a total rip-off from Microsoft, seemed like good
value at around £90, until I installed it and found about the total lack of
support!! There really is no limit to the greed of Microsoft! If you are
willing to pay over £100 for an OS as an home user then you must be grossly
overpaid and have no idea of prices in the real world!! Clive
 
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade goes for $99 US, that should go for <60
pounds plus whatever taxes you have agreed to pay. I would agree with you
on some versions, but Home seems reasonable, and I'm certainly not overpaid
and watch my money closely. I use X64 99% of the time and am quite happy
with it.
 
Does look like it would be twice that price since you won't be able to buy
an upgrade from Win98 to Vista Home. So about 120 pounds. (and you get to
keep your Win98 license :-) )
 
CliveRM said:
I already have full legal copies of both XP Pro and XP Pro 64, XP Pro is
fine
enough, but however Microsoft can even warrant charging anything at all
for
XP 64 is beyond my comprehension, my Philips Webcam, (MICROSOFT)
Fingerprint
Reader, HP Scanner, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc. etc etc. simply do
not work with it, again a total rip-off from Microsoft, seemed like good
value at around £90, until I installed it and found about the total lack
of
support!! There really is no limit to the greed of Microsoft! If you are
willing to pay over £100 for an OS as an home user then you must be
grossly
overpaid and have no idea of prices in the real world!! Clive
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Strange reasoning on your part.

It's a rip off from Microsoft because the manufacturers of your hardware
devices refuse to code 64 bit drivers so that the hardware will work under a
64 bit operating system.

I certainly wouldn't want you sitting on the jury if I were to go to trial.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Re: "[how] Microsoft can even warrant charging anything at all for XP 64
is beyond my comprehension {.....} my Philips Webcam, (MICROSOFT)
Fingerprint Reader, HP Scanner, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc. etc
etc. simply do not work with it"

Lots of things don't work with Windows XP 64, but those "things" are not
made by Microsoft, and you can't blame Microsoft because things made by
other firms don't work with that OS. That's a matter between you and
the vendor of the product whose manufacturer chose not to support XP 64.
It doesn't involve Microsoft. No one held a gun to your head to get
you to buy either XP 64 or the products that don't work with it.
 
Unfortunately, your pricing model seems to be based soley on exchange rate,
not real world economics.
We poor souls in the UK usually have to pay for hardware, software and
consumer electronics on the "pound as dollar" rate.
For example,the cheapest version of WinXP Pro upgrade is currently quoted at
140 dollars om amazon.COM, and 147 pounds on amazon.CO.UK.
Regards, Len
 
That's why I said

'plus whatever taxes you have agreed to pay' Just think of all the 'free'
goodies you get those in the US don't
 
I'm not sure why MS calls x64 XP because it from the Server 2003 SP1 code
base not the XP code base and that is why it is not free.
 
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