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Windows Vista pricing too high | |
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| Time: 09:35 EST/14:35 GMT | News Source: Neowin | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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In a poll conducted here at neowin.net, many members found the proposed pricing of Windows Vista Ultimate which is rumored to cost $450 at the launch early next year too pricey. At the time of posting, 442 of a total of 1388 votes found $299 a fair price, while 861 found it a better idea to pick it up on the street for 10 bucks. With todays PC buyers concerned about having to upgrade in order to run newer versions of Windows, its becoming all too easy to pick up a budget PC for under $450 that is quite capable of running all the enhancements included in Vista Ultimate, like Aero Glass and Media Center. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 6/14/2006 9:39:53 AM |
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$450 for an operating system is outrageous no matter what features it has.
Microsoft thinks it has pirating problems now? Just wait. If this price is accurate, it's gonna get MUCH worse. TL |
| #2 By 3 (62.253.128.15) at 6/14/2006 9:59:08 AM |
| Certainly will, its a massive price hike that i can see swaying more people to piracy rather than away from it, wasn't the idea of stopping piracy going to drive prices down??? |
| #3 By 26048 (12.180.11.195) at 6/14/2006 10:10:59 AM |
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Exactly, at prices like those reported, the Pirate Bay and it's cousins better gear up. I have always been a good boy and paid, but.........
I just got a second computer, a Mac. The new OS X for it is only $119.00 or less at some retailers, and virtually no viruses. |
| #4 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 6/14/2006 10:12:18 AM |
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Slow news day . . .
Start a rumor; take a poll regarding that rumor; spread it around the Web. Yeah, seems to be working . . . |
| #5 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 6/14/2006 11:45:17 AM |
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Let's see what the real prices will be next year. MS is simply testing the waters. More than likely prices will be in line. If not, wait a couple of years and buy the Vista upgrade you want during a retail store half-price sale.
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| #6 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 6/14/2006 11:51:18 AM |
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"$450 for an operating system is outrageous no matter what features it has."
You know whats even worse? RedHat charging 299 a year for the Workstation OS! "The new OS X for it is only $119.00" Every 12 to 18 months. Even if you buy Vista Premium full version (instead of the upgrade edition) and keep it 5 years, it will be cheaper than OS X. This post was edited by NotParker on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 11:52. |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/14/2006 12:07:47 PM |
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#6: That's the beauty of open source and choice (two things you don't get with MS), Parkkkkker. Sure, you can pay whatever Red Hat wants for their premium support. Or you can do it all yourself for free. Whereas with MS, you pay through the nose and get jack-squat for support. btw Parkkker, what does MS charge for premium support these days again?
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| #8 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 6/14/2006 1:07:51 PM |
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I can do my XP support for free too, without paying RedHat or SUSE's outrageuous software rental fee.
On the other hand, our organization buys about 5 - 10 support incidents a year in 5 packs for I think 1000$ a 5 pack. Cheap to support 3000+ workstations and 200 servers. About $2,000 a year. If we had bought RedHat, I think they charge 13,500$ for 50 WS licenses per year. We'd be paying RedHat 810,000 per year. Ouch! And then another 1500$ per server. Big OUCH! I'll stick with Microsoft. 10 years of patches. Cheap support. Good deal. You cannot, under the terms of the license, have one supported RedHat and the rest unsupported. You have to pay for them all. |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/14/2006 1:51:05 PM |
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#8: No matter how you try to spin and contort yourself, free is always going to be cheaper than cheap.
"I'll stick with Microsoft. 10 years of patches. Cheap support. Good deal." Well, duh. You're the biggest MS Homer on the planet. I don't think anything will wrest your precious, precious Microsoft from your grasp. btw you forgot "endless virii & malware" in your list. Good thing Patch Tuesday has finally rolled around for that major flaw from last month. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9351245770.html |
| #10 By 665 (67.185.84.40) at 6/14/2006 4:00:15 PM |
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Not to disrupt the Linux v. Windows v. OS X pricing debate we get into every day or two, but this poll is just ridiculous. Maybe it's just my training fron stats class, but who in their right mind is going to say "I'd spend $450 dollars for Vista" when they can just as easily say they'd spend $299? It's just not a way to conduct a poll and the results are meaningless. And then to write an article about a crappy poll? Sigh... (Note, I'm not defending the rumored pricing, just the way the poll was conducted). This post was edited by ToddAW on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 17:46. |
| #11 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 6/14/2006 4:21:23 PM |
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#9 I prefer the term "free as in puppy's".
Sure you can get a free puppy ... but then you have pay for the food, the vet bill etc etc. Only morons think an OS is truly free. Latch qualifies. As for security ... recent studies say Windows 2003 Server has less downtime than the leading Linux - RedHat. Downtime is costly. Too many to cut and paste: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4ws-errata.html |
| #12 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 6/14/2006 6:38:26 PM |
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If the price of Vista Ultimate Edition is too high then do not buy it, or buy a version of Vista that is less costly... or buy an alternative product.
That is the best way to influence price. Let the market decide the issue. |
| #13 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 6/14/2006 7:27:43 PM |
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Wow look at that a rational post. I wouldn't think I would find that here. |
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