Interested in getting that "Ultimate" version of Windows Vista? Be prepared to pay a bit for it. iTWire is reporting that Windows Vista Ultimate will come with a price tag around $450. As Ryan over at Engadget points out, that's about as much as a budget Dell system will cost you. Ultimate combines the features of Vista Business and Vista Home. For comparison purposes, Windows XP Professional currently goes for $300 at retail.Windows Vista Ultimate to cost $450?
Interested in getting that "Ultimate" version of Windows Vista? Be prepared to pay a bit for it. iTWire is reporting that Windows Vista Ultimate will come with a price tag around $450. As Ryan over at Engadget points out, that's about as much as a budget Dell system will cost you. Ultimate combines the features of Vista Business and Vista Home. For comparison purposes, Windows XP Professional currently goes for $300 at retail.
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5-30-2006 @ 1:23PM
Diddle said...
I mentionned it over there - it's too damned expensive. If MS wants everyone using its OS, they need to drop the price. If they were to charge $50 apiece, EVERYONE would use a LEGAL copy (well, not everyone, but you get the point). Software shouldn't cost that much when it's a standard - Acrobat, Photoshop, Office... they should all cost under $100!
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5-30-2006 @ 2:33PM
Peter said...
That is a lot of money, but almost no one gets their OS at retail. Virtually everyone gets it bundled and I would suspect even more people that usual will with Vista due to the hardware requirements. If you have to get new hardware anyway, there is no cheaper way to get the OS than with the hardware.
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5-30-2006 @ 5:21PM
DG10050 said...
To #2
I build all of my computers. Therefore, I always get my OS at retail. Although, I try to get it OEM from somewhere like Newegg if I can, since it's much cheaper. I've always been happy that I could build a pretty sweet PC for about $600-$700. Now I'm going to have to add $450 to that to upgrade to Vista. Hopefully they'll have some sort of special upgrade price like they usually do.
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5-30-2006 @ 7:46PM
Brett said...
Wow... that's triple the cost of OSX.
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5-31-2006 @ 10:19AM
Mike said...
That's correct, Brett -- and you get one-tenth the security and maybe half the ease of usability. Anybody who pays this -- please contact me, I have a slightly used Shittle I will part with for a mere $100,000.
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5-31-2006 @ 9:20PM
Myspace Layouts said...
its probably that high to offset the costs of all the pirated ones
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