Windows Vista price drop?
Microsoft has decided that Windows Vista is not worth the money that customers have been paying for it. No kidding! So the new pricing is as follows:
* Windows Vista Ultimate: $320, down from $400
* Windows Vista Home Premium: $130, down from $160
I have a suggestion for Microsoft, just give customers one version. Just call it Windows Vista and sell it for $130, maybe even $150, and be done with it. You’ll have happier customers (well, as much happiness as can be had with Windows Vista) and you’ll likely not lose so many customers to Apple. You’ve already lost me as I’ve made the complete switch to OSX by giving up my last computer running Windows in January. Best decision I’ve made this year and I highly recommend it!
Windows Vista SP1
Windows Vista
For some odd reason I was under the assumption that Windows Vista SP1 was supposed to make things better for the Windows Vista crowd but lately the reports that I’ve been reading is debunking that theory altogether. First I saw reports that the notoriously slow file copy processes were indeed not fixed completely in SP1 and now there are reports that even installing the pre-requisites for SP1 may throw your computer into an endless reboot scenario.
Someone please tell Microsoft that we don’t want their bloatware anymore. In the event that Microsoft simply can’t make a decent OS then please notify third party software makers that users are now switching to Mac platforms and that we would love to have their corporate software up and running in OSX.
