Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jun 2009 14:01 UTC
After a long wait, Microsoft has finally unveiled the pricing information for the next Windows release, Windows 7, which will arrive at the shops on October 22. Interestingly enough, Europe will get full retail copies for upgrade pricing because of the whole Windows 7 E thing not being tested when it comes to upgrades.
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RE[5]: Comment by Kroc
by google_ninja on Fri 26th Jun 2009 12:23
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Vista.
I was talking about a two year release cycle, 7 years of active development must have cost a fortune. I doubt vista broke even, even considering the much higher price, and the much larger market.
I was talking about a two year release cycle, 7 years of active development must have cost a fortune. I doubt vista broke even, even considering the much higher price, and the much larger market.
It wouldn't be accurate to say that it was in active development for 7 years considering SP2, Windows XP SP2 to Windows 2003 SP1 transition as the basis of Windows Vista.
Microsoft wastes an awful lot of money when you look at some of the go-no-where R&D projects that never actually develop into real world products to bring in the cash. Instead of Microsoft investing money into pie in the sky, go-no-where projects, they stick to the fundamentals, namely, getting Windows sorted out by ripping out 20-30 years worth of cruft that quite frankly are a giant size liability.
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130$ is next to nothing, considering the amount of work going in to an operating system. If you look at the size of the potential market, if Apple isn't losing money on osx, they are about breaking even. The only reason they are even making OSX is to sell their hardware. It may not be exactly the same thing as selling cheap bread to get people in the door, it is close enough that the analogy stands.
I wouldn't say you're too far off with the 'cheap bread' analogy given that it was Steve Jobs who said that Mac OS X is the heart of a Mac; without Mac OS X, Apple computers would be just yet another x86 PC out there with some minor tweaks here and there.
With that being said, if Windows 7 is all they can produce after throwing millions or possibly billions at the project - then I'd hate to see what a failed project looks like.
Edited 2009-06-26 11:29 UTC