Windows Vista Product Editions Revealed


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What funny is you guys dont think its ok for 500.00 for an ultimate edition of a rich OS vs. hundreds on hundreds for some apps out there

*cough* Adobe *cough*

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The difference is most people *buying* adobe stuff will do so to use it at work and make money, while I'm pretty sure most people buying (or warezing) WV ultimate Ed. will use it mostly to play games.

Expensive tools don't justify expensive toys.

They are pricing themselves out of the market just like NeXT did. I'm sure many people will cough up the dough as they always do but this is a serious mistake that may cost MSFT 15-20% marketshare.

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lol, aristotle-dude you always make the most extreme statments that even you must realise are crazy. 15-20% lol. people dont buy macs cause of the lack of windows software support. it wouldnt matter if they were cheaper and better it wouldnt make any difference and if they were cheap people would think they were rubbish. in fact most of my noob friends already do think macs are bad......

but i do think this is going to increase piracy. people cant bother to steal pro when they have home but have they have home and can upgrade to ultimate i think they will bother to do that. i know i would....

Starter Edition? That's stupid. Only 3 apps simultaneously? :o

I ran more apps than that simulataneously in Windows 3.1

I'll think I'll just get Windows Vista Ultimate when it comes out (somehow :shifty:)

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I think we all get your point, but you couldn't multi-task in 3.1

Price? People pay for Windows? :p

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LMAO

You forgot out the 8th version of Windows.

Windows Vista Pirated Edition

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Well if you calculate correctly then its accually 14 versions (Well 13; who the hell would pirate Starter Edition :p ?

Narrrr! Tha's right me lard! :pirate:

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:devil: :pirate: :devil: :pirate:

This is pointless and really confusing for the average user. What should be done is release 2 versions....then like you did for Media Edition release the other ones quietly for especific systems.

This is pointless and really confusing for the average user.

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No it's not. The average user will never even see most of the options. They'll see Home Basic, Home Premium, and maybe Ultimate. The other ones will be "hidden" away. Do you see average users getting confused by the fact that there is a Windows 2003? No, of course not. It's not out there next to XP, just like the business versions won't be.

lol, aristotle-dude you always make the most extreme statments that even you must realise are crazy. 15-20% lol. people dont buy macs cause of the lack of windows software support. it wouldnt matter if they were cheaper and better it wouldnt make any difference and if they were cheap people would think they were rubbish. in fact most of my noob friends already do think macs are bad......

but i do think this is going to increase piracy. people cant bother to steal pro when they have home but have they have home and can upgrade to ultimate i think they will bother to do that. i know i would....

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Uh.... yeah. Even before this announcement and the announcement of hardware recommendations for Vista, analysts were predicting a rise in market share for Apple of 5% over the next two years.

In case you have been under a rock, Intel macs will support windows in a dual boot situation. The average Joe uses windows because they are not aware of other alternatives. A rise in prices, complicated/confusing tiers of OS editions and steep hardware reqs may cause these same average Joe users to look for alternatives.

A user can just as easily pirate Windows if they have a mac.

I don't think we should take someone with a Vista logo as an avatar too seriously.

:rolleyes:

Why did you ignore the part about MUI? Is it because you don't have a clue what it is or that you do not see the value of it?

I predict that Vista will have an even slower adoption rate than XP had in Corporations. I also predict that mad_onion will be waiting in line outside a store the night before Vista's release.

:laugh:

I use VS,VS.NET at work and we have IBM servers/workstations with Intel P4's in them but you don't see me with an avatar of any of those do you?

;)

I think he ment where did ya'll come up with the $500 for Vista Ultimate Edition....

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Well it could be even more for all we know. I think it's pretty safe to say that it will cost at least around that given the existing pricing of XP and the number of tiers between Pro and Ultimate.

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