Why is Vista so Expensive?

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There is severe competition for all general hardware (mainboards, cpu,
People in here fail to realize that its MSFT who has to TEST all those
dozens of motherboards, video cards, modems, disk controllers, etc... then
they have to open up their time/energy (aka $$$) to the Nvidia/Adaptec/ATI's
of the world to provide them API's to write their drivers so we all don't
cry foul when our video card does not get 10million frames per second.

MSFT has been asked to support (And has) prior versions of their OS and also
fight the fact taht many people out there who walk into a neighborhood Fry's
and purchase a ECS (piece of crap) 4 layer motherboard along with a Pentium
D 805 they overclock the hell out of with cheap ram that blue screens
everytime they sneeze... its not MSFT fault hardware is crappy...

I have been building PC's for over 15 years now. Quality hardware gets you
solid systems... period...

who the hell cares if its a little more expensive (even if it is not)....
for those whiners in here.. go download Fedora Core and learn some perl and
shut the hell up...
 
Do you realize that Fedora Core has been doing what Vista foes
for a while now via compositing and Xgl?

There are some awesome skins for KDE/GNOME and other
Window managers out there that make it looks and behave like
Vista. Windows still doesn't have multiple desktops. Instead
you'll have to flip windows on the screen to conserve real-estate
(impractical copared to what Linux does, but whatever.).

I believe the reason for this is that Windows is not as resource
conservative as Linux.

But yes, us "whiners" sure as hell can download Fedora Core
(or just get Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, 60 free days of
support without WGA/DRM/etc. is $$$, or buy it for $50
bucks).

On top of that, mind as well wait for RHEL, I have a subscription
which entitles me to free upgrades with support (download the ISOs
or order a media kite for $25).

I'm sorry, I seem to have gone off on a tangent, you were trying to
make a point?

I downloaded the WindowBlinds trial yesterday and installed a Vista
Theme, same effect. I know there are security enhancements, but why
would I upgrade WIndows if security was my biggest concern, when I
have 5 Linux distros sitting in my CD/DVD case?

Businesses don't usually run gaming machines, they usually get lower-
grade productivity machines for their employees in bulk (remember the
Dell OptiPlex in the days of Windows 98). I don't see what your point
is. So, are you telling me that Microsoft didn't feel like testing so many
configurations, so instead they upped the system requirements and
set the OS to disable many features based on what it thinks is right?

People are running Linux Vista on sub 1GHz Celerons with on-board
video cards (Intel i810, iirc.). WTF is your point?

Ciao.

- Nate.
 
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