Windows Vista half price

[David Vincent]

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Jan Michelsburg wrote:
> Am Saturday, 1. März 2008 16:18:39 schrieb David Vincent:
> 
>> Thanks Scott, but the point I was trying to make was that Karl is
>> mistaken and Microsoft are not discounting Vista by 50% or more.  I can
>> find any number of articles with the actual news that Vista is going to
>> have a price drop of between $30 and $80 for Home Premium and Ultimate
>> respectively.
> 
> You ight read this article:
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901018
> 
> "Microsoft To Cut Vista Prices By Up To 50%",
> 
> "Price cuts for standalone packages of Windows Vista range from 20% to 50%, 
> depending on the country and version of the software, Microsoft said."

Thanks for pointing that out.  I just read a similar article on CBC.ca too.

Microsoft slashes Vista prices after 'botched' marketing
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/02/29/tech-vista.html

...so it seems Karl is vindicated.  Microsoft are indeed, slashing Vista
prices by up to 48% - but you'll only see cuts that deep in "emerging
markets", the rest of us will only see about a 20% cut.

- From Jan's link:

"Microsoft said Vista price cuts in emerging markets -- where the
company faces the most competition from open source software -- will be
as high as 48% in some countries."

For me (who doesn't depend on Microsoft software for anything and has no
need to run Photoshop CS3 or other W32 apps which don't work under WINE)
Vista just can't compete with Ubuntu.  Especially now that I got my
desktop effects working smoothly.  ;)

- -d

(hey, wasn't this thread supposed to move to the Sounder list?...)

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