Will Windows 7 really cost more than Vista?
Posted on 20th May 2009 at 11:52 by Tim Smalley with 30 comments
While Darren Ward, Director of Product Management for Dell’s Business Client Product Group, has said that Microsoft is likely to charge more for Windows 7 licences than it did for both Windows Vista and Windows XP, I’m not 100 per cent convinced that it'll affect consumers in quite the same way it does OEMs.
I would be quite surprised if the price increase is as widespread as implied by Ward’s statements – many commentators seem to think he means that every version of Windows 7 will be more expensive, but I think it’s likely to affect a smaller subset of potential Windows 7 adopters.
It’s important to understand the context in which the news was reported because I think that it makes quite a difference to what Ward actually said.
I would be quite surprised if the price increase is as widespread as implied by Ward’s statements – many commentators seem to think he means that every version of Windows 7 will be more expensive, but I think it’s likely to affect a smaller subset of potential Windows 7 adopters.
It’s important to understand the context in which the news was reported because I think that it makes quite a difference to what Ward actually said.
