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the prices for vista
« on: August 31, 2006, 09:33:01 am »
A random surfer found by coinsidence the prizes on the new windoez vista on the canadian microsofts hp

vista home = 275.777 usd
vista ultima = 448.227 usd

quite outrageous, imagine that a couple have to upgrade os, and only knows about windoez, maybe they only need 10% of what is on vista... that would mean they are paying for something they don't need, which would be a robbery.
« Last Edit: August 31, 2006, 09:39:54 am by Peacer »
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2006, 12:04:30 pm »
I was about to clap but it ended like X-/

That's alot'a dough:o
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2006, 07:00:40 pm »
Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2006, 08:38:27 pm »
The complete list:
VersionCompleteUpgrade
Vista Ultimate349199
Vista Business269179
Vista Home Premium239139
Vista Home Basic19999

So for me an upgrade to Vista would be 99-139, the OEM versions will probably be cheaper though ;)
And yes, it's a rip off, 9/10 of Vista's functions were discontinued!
The only 2 remaining features are the new GUI (yay...) and the "improved" kernel...

If I would buy Vista, it's only going to be because of the DirectX 10 games, because MS is kindly making DX10 Vista only  X-/
(where are you when we need you, Wine)
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2006, 11:40:47 pm »
why pay for something when you can get something for free thats 1000000000000000000000000 times better? GET LINUX! i swear to god, if i had the money, i would start making linux comercials.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2006, 10:57:35 am »
Quote from: Xordan on September 03, 2006, 07:00:40 pm
Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
Well that is just the point, eventually everyone will. Key word: DirectX 10, which will not run on XP.
And yes, there's the linux people... it's just not an alternative to gamers. Most games on linux are crap, Cedega is always one step behind (although they really are doing a great job :) ), and that's just it...
No wonder Microsoft does everyhting to keep their monopoly in place, and the sources closed... ;)
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2006, 12:33:42 pm »
Quote from: Peacer on August 31, 2006, 09:33:01 am
A random surfer found by coinsidence the prizes on the new windoez vista on the canadian microsofts hp

vista home = 275.777 usd
vista ultima = 448.227 usd

quite outrageous, imagine that a couple have to upgrade os, and only knows about windoez, maybe they only need 10% of what is on vista... that would mean they are paying for something they don't need, which would be a robbery.
This is not the entire cost, I'm afraid. All prices - regardless of version - also include exactly one soul.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2006, 12:42:53 pm »
I guess that in a certain way that oultrageous price is a good thing. Maby they'll push morre people towards Linux because paying 400$ for blue screens is just silly :P
IMO if you aren't a gamer, you don't need windows. And if you are, well, XP will give you just the same blue screen satisfaction as Vista will.

PS: Just remember the most usefull command Microsoft has implemented in their OSs: format c:
Oh! And the most usefull key combination "Ctrl-Alt-Del"
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2006, 02:51:32 pm »
Quote from: Uyaem on September 05, 2006, 10:57:35 am
Quote from: Xordan on September 03, 2006, 07:00:40 pm
Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
Well that is just the point, eventually everyone will. Key word: DirectX 10, which will not run on XP.
And yes, there's the linux people... it's just not an alternative to gamers. Most games on linux are crap, Cedega is always one step behind (although they really are doing a great job :) ), and that's just it...
No wonder Microsoft does everyhting to keep their monopoly in place, and the sources closed... ;)

Else there's always reactOS... a whole new operating system open source... and should be based on windoez... all made by reverse engineering
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2006, 05:21:01 pm »
ReactOS doesn't actually do anything at the moment.
The latest release only allows you to open up wordpad, or browse with firefox.
I think they're going to use Wine for the Direct3D stuff, but I'm not sure.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2006, 01:55:37 pm »
ok, i'm a troller :

prices for any linux : 0 USD
prices for unix *BSD : 0 USD

i have just FREE softs at home, and i'm really happy.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2006, 02:35:28 pm »
ReactOS and Wine work closely together to share code.  Wines registry editor is directly from the reactos code, and reactos already uses wine for its 32 bit subsystem. 
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2006, 08:03:05 pm »
What ever happend to "Lindows" ?
There was so much promise with this OS. I havent heard anything in years.
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Re: the prices for vista
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2006, 08:04:39 pm »
It's called Linspire now, because of a lawsuit with MS.
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Re: the prices for vista
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