Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Aug 2006 17:56 UTC, submitted by Robert Kovacs
Microsoft.com Canada has released pricing for Windows Vista. Windows Vista Ultimate is listed at $499 Canadian which translates into $450.36 in USD. Home Premium is listed at $299 or $269.86 USD, Vista Ultimate Upgrade is priced at $299 or $269.86 USD, while Home Premium Upgrade is $199 or $179.60 USD. At the same time, the first 100000 respondents can download Vista Build 5536. Microsoft is not giving out new keys, so you need your Beta 2 key. Update: Amazon.com now too sells Vista.
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Member since:2006-02-10
ill just grab a copy of ultimate off one of the piratebay torrents that will begin to show up a month before official release 
Glad this came up...
Price of Ubuntu+universe packages: $0
Price of Vista+Office+Photoshop+... via bittorrent: $0
See? Closed source software can be as "free" as open source. And 99.99% of users don't care about the source.
The real enemy is piracy. Fight that, and people will be searching for "freebies" elsewhere. GPL, BSD, perhaps.
As for me? Using pirated software? Please. You might as well call me a p0rn sufer. Nobody does this, right?
Member since:2005-07-23
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2005-07-06
ill just grab a copy of ultimate off one of the piratebay torrents that will begin to show up a month before official release