Vista pricing

[j79zlr]

I'll buy Vista, plain and simple.

Microsoft does not care about you or any other home users, at all. They need to convince business to upgrade, and they really have no good argument, especially since it will break and force them to upgrade loads of their other commercial software.


Of course they will just say how much more secure this OS is, and its the most secure OS out there. Just like they falsely claimed with XP, just like they falsely claimed with 2000, just like they falsely claimed with 98, etc, etc, etc.

 

[GEN3RIC]

How much is Norton AntiVirus every year? $50? Thats alot of $50 charges.

LOL you buy antivirus software?

 

[j79zlr]

I pay for AVG because I like the company. Same reason I purchase upgrades for Slackware and Gentoo eventhough I do not have to.

Companies are not eligible for free antivirus programs, which is where my main argument was directed. Most companies seem to think its necessary to run Norton or McAfee eventhough they are arguably the worst AV's out there.

 

[madmatt]

Amazon now has the prices listed for Vista with an availability date of 01/30/2007

Ultimate

• $399.00 Regular Price
• $359.00 Additional License
• $259.00 Upgrade Price
• $233.00 Additional License

Business

• $299.00 Regular Price
• $269.00 Additional License
• $199.95 Upgrade Price
• $179.00 Additional License

Home Premium

• $239.00 Regular Price
• $215.00 Additional License
• $159.00 Upgrade Price
• $143.00 Additional License

Home Basic

• $199.00 Regular Price
• $179.00 Additional License
• $99.95 Upgrade Price
• $89.95 Additional License

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/104-5081115-1046347?search-alias=software&keywords=Windows Vista

 

[mlakrid]

Amazon now has the prices listed for Vista with an availability date of 01/30/2007

Ultimate

• $399.00 Regular Price
• $359.00 Additional License
• $259.00 Upgrade Price
• $233.00 Additional License

Business

• $299.00 Regular Price
• $269.00 Additional License
• $199.95 Upgrade Price
• $179.00 Additional License

Home Premium

• $239.00 Regular Price
• $215.00 Additional License
• $159.00 Upgrade Price
• $143.00 Additional License

Home Basic

• $199.00 Regular Price
• $179.00 Additional License
• $99.95 Upgrade Price
• $89.95 Additional License

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/104-5081115-1046347?search-alias=software&keywords=Windows Vista

Reps+ Matt

Nice find, and I like the idea of adding multiple licenses for a portion of the total cost, that IS a much different picture than has been painted on other forums I have read...

Does it actually work for say 4 PCs you pay full price and then add the extra license fee for the other 3 machines? What if they are all dual-processor machines? is that 5 extra licenses...

HELP!

 

[madmatt]

I assume one license will cover two CPU's per computer (like XP).

However, with dual core already available and quad core on the way I imagine this will be addressed.

 

[kcnychief]

Good part of that is the Home Basic Upgrade price, very attractive to most home buyers who don't really need bells, whistles or networking features.

 

[ming]

That looks in-line with the XP versions when they first came out.

 

[albybum]

When you pay for this license you are essentially helping pay for the development cost of all the UI improvements, Direct X 10, and all the other program updates.

On top of this incredibly long development cycle (and resulting cost) for this OS, they have to make a profit.

I can't fault them for this pricing model. I don't think it is terribly outrageous considering the development time. However, a lot of the improvements weren't real "functional" system improvements.

Until they get key software developers to completely abandon XP, I have absolutely no reason to switch any of my computers in the foreseeable future.

It won't make them any friends though and may push a few more people over to Intel Macs.

 

[kcnychief]

You guys have the pricing all wrong, the real cost is shown here -

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195283&cid=15999907

 

[Lawman82]

Mr. K, you are right.

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

LOL you buy antivirus software?

We pay well over $500,000.00 for anti-virus per year

 

[madmatt]

Shamus, some of them don't have a clue =)

 

[kcnychief]

Not so fast on those release dates...

"I'd love to be able to tell you that that is in fact the (Vista release) date, but there's nothing we can confirm right now."> Ditto on Office. In spite of Amazon's publication of a January 30, 2007, release date for Office 2007, a Microsoft spokeswoman said: "I'd love to be able to tell you that that is in fact the date, but there's nothing we can confirm right now."

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2009990,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

 

[kcnychief]

Official pricing from Microsoft directly, each price at the bottom of the respective product page

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx

 

[Mainframeguy]

and suggested means? I'll be only upgrading one of my pro machines if this comes out to around £100 UK money.... I just hope it is seamless in integrating with a Windoze domain environment.... maybe that should be another thread though....

 

[kcnychief]

Suggested is a Politically Correct way of saying what it will actually cost.

 

[American Zombie]

Suggested just means what Microsoft wants retailers to charge but retailers are still free to set the price higher or lower then what the manufactures suggested retail price is.

 

[kcnychief]

Which usually has little to no variances.

 

[ming]

I've said this before....

The prices seems to be in-line with previous versions of Windows XP, just that they've got the newer business, enterprise and ultimate editions on top.