Posted on 03/02/2008 9:11:54 PM PST by South40
I expected to see some lower Vista prices in this weekend's ads, but was surprised to see just how low the prices had fallen.
Officially the price cuts announced by Microsoft on Thursday don't take effect until later this year when Service Pack 1 hits retail shelves. However, the company had said that many retailers were offering promotions that bring the software to its lower price.
But the ad at OfficeMax took things a step further. In this week's circular, the office products chain is selling Windows Vista Home Premium for $99. That's $30 less than Microsoft's just-lowered price and the same as the suggested price for Windows Vista Home Basic--though perhaps just a hair more than the clearance prices a couple weeks back at closing CompUSA stores.
The question now is just how low will Vista go.
I wouldn’t use that junkware if they gave it to me for nothing. Hell, I doubt I’d use it if they would pay me to.
They discount after the first 100 million sold.
But... but... but they promised me everything would be just fine if I picked it up by the "clean end"...
They've said the same about Juan McCain.
HA!!! LOL (really!)
PC Magazine sez-
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2265662,00.asp
Leopard again raises the question of whether to switch from Windows to a Mac. I’ve found Vista to be a major disappointment that tends to look worse the more I use it. I still use Windows XP for getting serious work done in long, complicated documents. But OS X is easier to manage and maintain and I vastly prefer OS X to Windows for Web-browsing, mail, and especially for any task that involves graphics, music, or video. Leopard performs all such tasks even better than previous versions did—and Leopard is the only OS on the planet that works effortlessly and intuitively in today’s world of networked computers and peripherals. Leopard is far from perfect, but it’s better than any alternative, and it’s getting harder and harder to find good reasons to use anything else.
Bill’s attempt at obsoleting XP has been a big flop, to say the least. Five years, and God knows, how much money.
Is that the full (no prior Windows) version, or the UPGRADE version?
BestBuy has the upgrade for $99, but the full version is still $239.
Not that you can't get an old Win2K CD, install that, then "upgrade"... it hardly matters since Vista never actually upgrades in place -- it's always a clean install as far as I can tell.
The hell with price cuts on Vista, if you want to do something good Mr. Bill (for us and Microsoft), support XP for about 4 more years.
All those salaries and perks for all those years... not to mention a lot of Half-Billion-dollar marketing campaigns... they've eaten dirt on this even if they force everybody over in another year or so...
Just until Windows7 SP1.
http://blip.tv/file/340692/
Let's help him out... TECH PINGS!?!
Meanwhile, Ubuntu Linux, a fully featured modern OS that includes the gee-whiz eye-candy of Vista with only a fraction of the resource requirements and none of its vulnerability to viruses is still... free.
We have XP and will continue to use it for as long as absolutely necessary. It's stable and does everything we need it to do.
Hmmm, can't get that Flash to start on my Mac (which does fine on YouTube, Google, etc. including embedded ones). What is BlipTV doing differently?
Are they gonna make me crank up my WinXP VM just to watch a video on how Vista sucks? That's too ironic...
I read somewhere that 7 should be out in 2 to 3 years, that's why I said support XP for 4 years. That gives me a year to come up with a plan if 7 turns out to be Vista Jr.
Windows 2000 EOL (end of security patches) is July 13, 2010. We still have some time left.
Vista is the new Me.
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