Gentlemen, GET OUT YOUR CHECKBOOKS--VISTA is COMING!

[mbigna]

http://www.computerworld.com/action...eBasic&articleId=9002806&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1

"According to Neowin.net, list quoted the price for Windows Vista Ultimate as $450 (C$499), while Home Premium will be $270 (C$299). An upgrade to Vista Ultimate will also cost $270 (C$299), while an upgrade to Home Premium will cost $180 (C$199), according to the blog."

 

[CGR]

HELL and NO!!!!

XP 4 life or till support ends

 

[mbigna]

Evidently, Amazon is taking preorders. Prices appear to be a little cheaper there, but that is for the low-end versions.

I got to find a link to an article that compares all the known SKUs.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/art...2730_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-MICROSOFT-WINDOWS.XML

 

[mbigna]

Amazon entries

I'm getting a headache just counting all these SKUs. Maybe later I'll try to organize it all.

It appears that every version will be available in four varieties: 1) Full Install, 2) Upgrade, 3) Full Install-Licence [only] (meaning just a key, no media?) and 4) Upgrade Licence [only]. Interestingly, all the install media is DVD ONLY.

Here is Amazon's pre-order pricing:

Microsoft Windows Vista Business Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$179.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...2928/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate DVD-Rom
$399.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...2928/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium DVD-Rom
$239.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...882928/ref=sr_1_6/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD-Rom
$259.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...882928/ref=sr_1_9/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade DVD-Rom
$159.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...82928/ref=sr_1_12/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Business Upgrade DVD-Rom
$199.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_17/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$215.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_19/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$179.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_22/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Business DVD-Rom
$299.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_24/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$143.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_27/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic DVD-Rom
$199.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_29/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$89.95
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83103/ref=sr_1_43/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Business Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$269.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83103/ref=sr_1_41/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Microsoft License Pack Additional License
$359.00
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83103/ref=sr_1_34/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade DVD-Rom
$99.95
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Win...83049/ref=sr_1_31/002-0375109-1039230?ie=UTF8

 

[Abominable1]

Why would a basic upgrade be a DVD? I guess one DVD is cheaper to make than 2 CD's?

 

[mbigna]

Why would a basic upgrade be a DVD? I guess one DVD is cheaper to make than 2 CD's?

Welcome to bloatware.

 

[AngelfireUk83]

I read that VISTA will be £142 over here in the Uk stuff that I paid £110 for XP Pro 3 years ago. I thought that was day light robbery my next build will be an X2 system maybe 4X4 if I win some money. But it'll have XP on it I think cause VISTA would takes ages getting used to in my book and I hate having to start from scratch on another new op system.

 

[Oroka Sempai]

Wonder what discount Beta testers will get? Kinda sucks that it will be that expensive, but XP is still pretty much the same price as it was 5 years ago... might as well suck it up cause it will proably be that way till the next windows.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Why would a basic upgrade be a DVD? I guess one DVD is cheaper to make than 2 CD's?

Try 4+ CDs. The iso file for the ultimate beta2 was over 3GB and the install used over 9GB of hard drive space just for Vista before any apps were installed.

Maybe RC1 testers will be given a good discount.

OTOH when Microsoft sees few buyers, maybe they will have sales incentives to boost deployments.

 

[kwongnewman]

IMO, Vista uses way too much hard drive space. I think I'll stick with XP until Vista gets a service pack.

 

[Lionsault_100]

people preordering software..??

WTF ?

its not like CPU's that need to be built

to make these CD's isn't it just a bunch of DVD burners and lightscribe (substitute) drives ?


there should never be any software supply issues...

 

[EvilT]

ill stick with my betas

 

[Captain Helghas]

I can see it now, "Dell recommends Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate" for your Celeron D. Oh the burning hatred.

 

[nd4spdbh2]

I can see it now, "Dell recommends Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate" for your Celeron D. Oh the burning hatred.

AHAHAH thats great..... thers no way im switching to vista n e times soon... way to much of a hog. and theres no advantage over XP

 

[Abominable1]

AHAHAH thats great..... thers no way im switching to vista n e times soon... way to much of a hog. and theres no advantage over XP

You basically trade in PC performance for visual eye-candied windows, menus and thousands of OS bugs that seem to never be fixed. Does anyone else find that new start menu just plain stupid? It's also more complicated to do other simple tasks such as navigating to an imbedded folder. I'll being staying with XP for now unless something gives with Vista...something REAL BIG.

 

[Lionsault_100]

^ but most of us have systems good enough to sacrifice performance for eye candy!

 

[Sorin]

You basically trade in PC performance for visual eye-candied windows, menus and thousands of OS bugs that seem to never be fixed. Does anyone else find that new start menu just plain stupid? It's also more complicated to do other simple tasks such as navigating to an imbedded folder. I'll being staying with XP for now unless something gives with Vista...something REAL BIG.

My gripes with the start menu were the ABSOLUTELY RETARDED "Programs" implementation. Terrible. And the shutdown button not being able to be configured, tweaked, changed, whatever. Pressing the button leads to sleep or standy by or whatever. You actually have to click a few menus in, in order to shutdown. I shall miss being able to just hit winkey -> U -> U to shutdown windows.

I don't know if there were other things I didn't like about the start menu...but I guess there wasn't since those are the only two things that always come immediately to mind.

 

[Captain Newbie]

Wow, Microsoft is (yet again) coming in without vaseline...

I don't see me buying that anytime soon.

 

[JigPu]

Ditto. XP works just fine, and unless DirectX 10 offers some serious graphics improvements (like what pixel shader 2.0 brought the masses) it's wholly useless to me.

<3 XP and Linux
JigPu

 

[k3rnel]

Those prices are downright insane. I haven't read a whole lot about Vista, but what I have read is not convincing enough for me to upgrade to it. The biggest feature I was excited about was WinFS and they stripped that out due to "time" and "complications"

I think I'll stick with my current mix of XP Pro and Ubuntu for now......