Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Jan 2007 13:49 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Even though the retail launch of Windows Vista just a couple of weeks away, Microsoft is still continuing to fine-tune its licensing and pricing details. Sources said that Microsoft will announce some time over the next few days that the two additional copies of Vista Home Premium for somewhere between USD 50 to USD 99 a piece. In order to qualify for the so-called 'Family Pack' promotion, customers will first need to purchase at retail a copy of Vista Ultimate, which carries an estimated retail price of USD 399. The deal will not be offered to those who purchase Ultimate preloaded on a new PC, sources said; it will be for customers buying and/or upgrading via retail channels only.
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2006-02-11
I don't even understand why you are making such comparisons. It doesn't matter what argument you come up with for microsoft in favour of OSX pricing , microsofts operating system is still over priced. And I think many of us are missing the point. The piece of software is "JUST" an operating system. You can't do anything useful with it until you run programs on top of it. Vista may promise to do a lot of things but it's work a plug nickel apart from the programs that run on top of it.
So the arguments of gimp vs photoshop , quark vs scribus etc ,really are not worth having. ... they stray from the point. Is it worth forking out so much cash for an operating system , which is almost the same price as a new machine , when all it REALLY REALLY does is execute programs ..... please nobody even mention the "applications" that come with vista as a counter argument.