Are you going to buy Win7 at these Prices

I see a sweet business opportunity for them!

100-licenses Business/Pro = USD$3,000
Unlimited-licenses Business/Pro = USD$9,000

/Prices are steep, but worth it in the end.
//Used my phone's calculator instead of the computer
///Found out that when the BlackBerry Bold is on vibrate, the delete button in the calculator is the only thing that makes noise. How stupid! (Love the Bold, by the way)

PhreePhly said:

Actually, enterprises have some awesome opertunities. I've read that 10,000 seat enterprises can get licenses for Office and Windows that are about $27/seat. Not bad.

MS takes care of the enterprise, that's their bread and butter.

PhreePhly

I would imagine. It's probably how they got a grip on the entire computer world. I sure hope Microsoft makes the prices less than stated in the first post. 90% of my high school has switched to mac.

As for Office, they are definitely more than considerate with Enterprise. It has everything you need and more. I downloaded a version of Office called Blue Edition once, and it has Vundo.Gen in it (it forced me to delete all of my work and reinstall Windows). So if you're looking for Office Enterprise and come across Blue Edition, don't download it . Just thought I'd toss that out there.

I think MAC is pretty lame I've worked on a few and for what I do on a computer it would never work. 5 for $299 I agree was a little rich but would be a great price especially after what XP users say about Vista. I think I should get some return for dealing with them all the time lol. Oh ya and always fixing there PCs.

ikilledkenny said:

As stated by someone else before, in this economy, nobody is going to buy it at the "official" price.

Excellent point. I have never brought directly from MS. All of my operating systems came preinstalled on my computer with a "reinstall" disc :).

Official Prices are entirely tooooooooooooooo high.
I might buy from a nice Chineese site for:

2009-4-20 Source: Sina Technology Windows 7 prices will be 399 yuan and 499 yuan. This converts to 49.96 USD 62.48 USD

That sounds about right... If not that then I'll just have to go

TechOutsider said:

Excellent point. I have never brought directly from MS. All of my operating systems came preinstalled on my computer with a "reinstall" disc :).

Yeah! Cheers to Preinstalled OEM stuff!

ikilledkenny said:

Yeah! Cheers to Preinstalled OEM stuff!

Don't like the customizations though, like preinstalled programs, etc. Usually Dell is pretty good about that.

One of my computers, a Toshiba, came with a custom 2 DVD Windows Vista reinstallation disc.

My computer came with a 3-CD Vista Home Premium recovery disk. It came with NTI CD Burner and a Movie Making Program, along with the Acer Arcade Media Center Plugin. Let's not forget Norton 360 90-day trial.

Overall, Acer was pretty good about the crap they put on my computer.