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What's unfortunate is that some people have just bought Vista and been disappointed by it. They'll be reluctant to jump onto yet another OS. I have Vista Ultimate x64 sitting here in a brand new case and it was $200. Will I buy W7? Of course I will but the upgrade editions, while cheaper, are useless.
You HAVE to have the full retail to ensure a smooth install, hence the higher price.
I too am a little bit unhappy with all the different versions. I had Vista Home Premium and did well with it but HAD to get Ultimate for 1 Thing!! I'd prefer if I could have used the Digital Locker feature and gave them $10-20 for the 1 Ultimate feature I needed. I know that sets a bad president but if you only need 1 or 2 Ultimate items why waste the money on it.
Gotta be fake.. $200 for the starter edition?
I don't think so.
What I'd like to see (although would PREFER cheaper.. such as not $50 increments.. and would like to see ultimate at ~200$)
Starter $100
Home premium- $150
Professional - $200
Ultimate-$250
I will probably buy ultimate since by then I will be so thoroughly hooked on the product
that I really won't have a choice. I really like win seven over vista. I have them both on my laptop and I never ever use vista.
I would pay a quarter of that, but even then I'd still think it expensive.
Upgrade disks are seen for far lower prices to start with since you can only see the newer version installed when starting the installer on an existing copy of a previous version. For 7 that would be 2000, XP, Vista.
The high prices everyone is complaining about are see on the full install editions whether retail or oem while the retail package contains both 32bit and 64bit versions of the same edition while oem is either one or the other bought separately. The upgrade disk for 7 Pro wouldn't be 50% at $150- but more like 75% of the retail price if the final prices are anything like seen on Vista.
That was about $260 for the Ultimate upgrade disk in early 2007, $200 for Business, and $160 for Home Premium at the time. Windows Vista pricing favors PC upgrades • The Register
I couldn't argue about that before Vista's initial release and later finding out from someone went retail not oem that both the 32bit and 64bit Ultimate editions were either included with the retail box or saw a coupon for the 64bit at that time. $399- for Ultimate was an absurb price when I had been paying $180- for 98SE and actually less for XP SP2 oem while XP Pro SP2 retail still gets close to $200 when you look around for it. Newegg.com - Microsoft Get Genuine Kit Windows XP Professional SP2 - Operating Systems