Microsoft Launched Vista on Tuesday

[mackensteff]

Just by the cheapest upgrade then use this hack

I really like Apple's 1 OS model.

I was just looking at some Vista prices (just because I might want to get it) for all the editions I could buy:
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Upgrade Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition 32BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition 64BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 32BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition 32BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition 64BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 32BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 64BIT OEM
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition (Signed by Bill Gates)

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9141/52/

 

[coffey7]

I bought the home premium version and it was only $150. All you have to do is load windows xp first or 2000 pro then you buy the upgrade version. If you upgrade, vista is still the same if you do a clean install without transfering of any files. Works for me and I saved $80 dollars. I will use Vista for about 4 years and that makes it cost about $37.50 per year. I spend more than that perday with gas and food money.

 

[Xyl]

But wait-there's more! Thats excluding the N and K versions for Europe and Korea!

Yes there's a whole bunch of others too, International Edition and what not. But those are the versions I could get, that are available to me.

I bought the home premium version and it was only $150. All you have to do is load windows xp first or 2000 pro then you buy the upgrade version. If you upgrade, vista is still the same if you do a clean install without transfering of any files. Works for me and I saved $80 dollars. I will use Vista for about 4 years and that makes it cost about $37.50 per year. I spend more than that perday with gas and food money.

This upgrade trick only works if you already have a license, right? I don't have an XP license lying around. So OEM looks to be the best bet... (yes you can't transfer it, but I doubt I'll have to anyways).

 

[CallistoJag]

POne windows version too many?

Must say that Vista is the first version of windows I did not feel compelled to go out and buy, tired of the whole windows thing. Work has none the less got me a copy to trial run. What a waste of space on my macbook

 

[epardilla]

Bill Gates calls Apple LIARS!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/page/2/

Haha....

I like how offended he seems to the reporter's questions...
"Q: Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC—
Bill: That’s for my customers to decide."

 

[APPLENEWBIE]

Gates on Mac Ads/Apple in general

From MSNBC Tech section:


By Steven Levy
Newsweek
Updated: 2:25 a.m. PT Feb 3, 2007

“Are you bugged by the Apple commercial where John Hodgman is the PC, and he has to undergo surgery to get Vista??I've never seen it. I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are.

How about the implication that you need surgery to upgrade??Well, certainly we've done a better job letting you upgrade on the hardware than our competitors have done. You can choose to buy a new machine, or you can choose to do an upgrade. And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you're really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There's not even the slightest shred of truth to it.
Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC—?That’s for my customers to decide.
In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system.?You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise. Let’s be realistic, who came up with [the] file, edit, view, help [menu bar]? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?”

 

[BuzWeaver]

I find it amusing to see Mac Fans squabbling. It seems to be a 'okay' to go after Big Software because its become nearly a past time to go after Goliath's like Microsoft. Yet at the same time as I use my Mac I seem to come across quite a few things that 'don't just work'. I'm talking about little things that are an after thought in Windows, yet are a struggle or requires a plug-in or download for Apple. Not to mention the amount to time I have to research peripherals, applications and software for compatibility.