niteice

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=124

For those too lazy to click:

FULL versions (all prices Canadian)

Windows Vista Ultimate $499

Windows Vista Business $379

Windows Vista Home Premium $299

Windows Vista Home Basic $259

UPGRADE versions (all prices Canadian)

Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade $299

Windows Vista Business Upgrade $249

Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade $199

Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade $129


For the currency-impaired (still Canadian):

Windows XP Professional w/SP2 $429
Windows XP Home w/SP2 $259
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 Upgrade $259
Windows XP Home w/SP2 Upgrade $129

Indigno

O.o...

Jesus Christ. The upgrades for windows are usually $50 US. And the basic home is like $100. How can they believe that anyone will buy that? If anything, they're just promoting more piracy of their product. It's an incredibly stupid thing to do, have a monopoly on a market and then jack up the price, because that calls in lots of complaints and possibly even legal intervention.

TLDR: I hope those are fake or Canadian Dollars (Though It's still expensive.)

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niteice

:p

XP Pro (full) is supposed to retail for $279 in the US. That puts Ultimate somewhere around $319ish, and it drops from there. Home Basic (upgrade) would be $99, is my guess. So the damage isn't incredibly bad, but it still seems a little on the high side.

Mocker

I wouldn't get Vista if it was $10 from what I've heard of it. Awefully expensive for a product they can't stop from crashing.

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Josh Smith

Well for some people it might be usefull and for others will will just come installed on their new computer. As I see it there are only a few reasons for an XP user to upgrade.

If you are the sort of person who has money to throw at graphics cards then you will need Vista to use the DirectX 10 functionality of the card. Vista will also be usefull if you like to buy media that uses DRM.

I have a friend who installed the Beta 2 release and he was not exactly impressed by it. I played with it for a bit and I found that the Aero UI did not add much to my productivity and the User Account Protection was slightly anoying after a while. You can bet that there will be lots of people who upgrage just for the fancy UI, but for me that is definatly not the case.

In a way i think it will be like Windows ME was to Windows 98. I am not refering to the stability but to the fact that windows ME was nothing special for a windows 98 user. If you were a windows 95 user then ME might have been a good upgrade. I think that most people can live without Vista. I personally will probably stick with Windows XP. If i need a newer OS in a few years I might migrate to Linux.

kruptof

thats some outragous prices.............okay they gone the extra by building their stack from scatch..............but they must be getting tones of money from the signing of drivers because now they made it compulsary that every driver has to be signed..........not looked at the link yet are u sure these are not rumours from oppositions.

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niteice

Well, they were accidentally posted on Microsoft's site, so there's a very good chance that they're legitimate.

kruptof

i don't see why this is a suprise because ms have to ship this product in 1-2 months time to enterprises because i think thats when they said they will give it to them.

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Indigno

I hate how MS is forcing everyone to upgrade by making DX10 Vista only. It's totally forcing gamers to upgrade. I like XP, it has always worked very well on all of my PC's, but Vista is HUGE, and complete crap software. Of course, I'll have to get a copy just so I can continue to game. It's just complete market rape.

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bl00dninja

it's called business, and we'll all do it.

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