Microsoft reduces Vista prices
Over 100 million licenses have been sold since Vista's January 2007 début, but Microsoft still sees growth opportunities with lower prices.
Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing at Microsoft, said that "the price changes will most notably impact upgrade retail versions of the new editions we introduced in 2007—Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions.
In the US, Windows Vista Home Premium upgrade will be cut from $159 to $129, while Vista Ultimate upgrade will drop from $299 to $219.
"These price changes will take effect globally with the retail release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 later this year," he added.
The software giant says that it has sold over 100 million Vista licenses since the operating system was launched at the start of last year. Brooks pointed out that, "while this is great progress, we see an opportunity to grow our business even more with some of the new editions we introduced with Windows Vista."
"Today, the vast majority of Windows licenses are sold with PCs; retail stand-alone sales, in contrast, have been primarily from customers who value being early adopters and those building their own machines," he explained.
Would the lower prices tempt you to upgrade to Windows Vista, or are you still happy with Windows XP? Tell us in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyBesides thers no way I'm splashing out £70 for a performance hit, no matter how shiny the interface. XP all the way till something more than Crysis needs it.
A price drop is only to be expected, XP got cheaper after the initial rush had died down. Even now Vista prices vary a lot, depending on where you buy - £52-£91 for HP OEM by a quick look at Google Shopping.
Noob question: What's OEM?
I think you'll discover a couple of things, one that you don't use Windows much after you switch and two, that and OS is an OS is an OS, they all do pretty much the same thing, you just find the one you prefer.
:)
- Building a system from bits, usually to sell but for yourself counts
- Providing technical support for that system
Activation ties that DVD serial number to that motherboard, upgrade the motherboard and you may need a new copy of Vista. Or hopefully, Win 7 ;).Agreed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Who needs Aero anyway when they're running Milkdrop as their desktop wall paper. :)
http://burningfeetman.googlepages.com/sMilkdrop.jpg
Click for biggy! Beautiful stuff.
XP works for me, what's the use of good memory management when it gobbles half of your available ram to do it?
Imho its not that surprising that it uses a bit more memory than XP does really.
Whats really is surprising to me though is how many people to this day still confuse the memory management's pre-loading of commonly used data for quicker access (and releasing instantaneously if other date needs to go in since the new data can over-write the old with no intermediate steps required and thus no real slow-down) with it gobbling up half there memory. ;)