Don't expect Microsoft to talk much about the Basic edition of Windows Vista when the operating system ships. The software maker wants you to go Premium. Microsoft is readying its marketing efforts for Vista, the successor to Windows XP slated to be broadly available in January. In its consumer campaigns, the company plans to highlight specific uses - which it calls 'scenarios' - of the operating system. In each case, Windows Vista Home Premium will be the product Microsoft tries to sell.
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Member since:2005-07-06
How is it wrong ? It is still two sales.
If OEM version costs, lets say $100 and the upgrade version costs an extra $200 total price is $300.
Now, if the original package would have cost $300, then there is no extra cash for Microsoft, but that is irrelavent, I was talking about the amount of sales generated.
In a years time, Microsoft might be able to say they have sold 50 million copies of Vista, when in fact, most of them are upgrades from the OEM version, and the actual number of sales is 7 million. Do you see now ?
Member since:2005-07-06
Because the upgrades take into account the version you have already.
If you have Home Prem on your computer, and lets say for the sake of the argument that it costs $200, and you wanted to upgrade to Premium which we'll say costs $300, you are only going to pay an extra $100 to get that upgrade, not the full $300.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
Wrong. Consumer has the option to upgrade right from Windows to the premium version and pay only the difference of cost between the two.