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Microsoft Matches Snow Leopard Price With Windows 7, But Only for Students

Richard1028 said:
Then why are you even lecturing people about Windows in a Windows thread? (But your silly-assed sig tells me everything I suppose). For somebody
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I'm perfectly free to use it as an opportunity to slag on Windows and MS. Not only is incredibly fun, but it can do wonders for bonding. This isn't a tech enthusiast site, it's an Apple fan site, and those who wish to rip on Windows - even for the sheer fun of it, should at best, be lauded for their team spirit, and at worst, be shown quiet understanding.

And if you don't like my "silly-assed sig", then WTF are you doing on an Apple fan site??

Winsupersite is right over here:

http://www.winsupersite.com/

See? I even put the link in there for ya. All you need to do is point IE to it and you're good to go.
 
That is ridiculous. Students won't pay for smth to upgdrade ? On what ground ? Legal one ? Not impressed. they will just bye a new notebook if they need new machine. Otherwise they will stay on what they have now. And frankly speaking, XP does its job for them. There is no need to pay extra money just to have Windows Seven on their old hardware. What for - if they can write in Office and chat in google. SO I think that policy won't have any extra benefits as any of the Microsoft.

Alas Poor Yoric!
 
Probably a lot of Vista users in college

alabanco said:
That is ridiculous. Students won't pay for smth to upgdrade ? On what ground ? Legal one ? Not impressed. they will just bye a new notebook if they need new machine. Otherwise they will stay on what they have now. And frankly speaking, XP does its job for them. There is no need to pay extra money just to have Windows Seven on their old hardware. What for - if they can write in Office and chat in google. SO I think that policy won't have any extra benefits as any of the Microsoft.

Alas Poor Yoric!
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http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

Vista share about 4 times larger than total Mac share.... And Windows 7 is almost a quarter of the Mac share.

Since Vista has been out for the start of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 school years, most students who got a new PC for college got Vista.
 
*LTD* said:
I don't come here to extol the makers of the ********* software known to Man. This is MACRUMORS. It's an Apple fan site. If I gave a sweet damn about discussing what's good about Windows I'd be on Winsupersite or Neowin.

I'm way past the "Windows has its advantages too" stage. It really doesn't, and I don't miss it at all. In fact, in retrospect, I kind of regret switching to Windows in 2002. Sure I learned what it was like to use it every day, but I think I could have done without that education.

I'm not required to be "fair" or say "nice" things about MS just to maintain some sort of mock-objectivity for everyone's approval.

I'm perfectly free to use it as an opportunity to slag on Windows and MS. Not only is incredibly fun, but it can do wonders for bonding. This isn't a tech enthusiast site, it's an Apple fan site, and those who wish to rip on Windows - even for the sheer fun of it, should at best, be lauded for their team spirit, and at worst, be shown quiet understanding.

And if you don't like my "silly-assed sig", then WTF are you doing on an Apple fan site??

Winsupersite is right over here:

http://www.winsupersite.com/

See? I even put the link in there for ya. All you need to do is point IE to it and you're good to go.
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you do realize that your sad and pathetic rants actually turn people off from macs right? for a 'fan' that really isn't doing much for the team you're cheering for. i like both windows and apple. the fact that you post such ludicrous and childish nonsense under the guise of having 'fun' speaks volumes for how ****** your real life must be.

all in all, you are pretty much everything that is wrong with this site.
 
Please excuse my Windows ignorance - been on Macs exclusively since Jan 2000. But I just bought a netbook with XP, and I'm wondering about possibly upgrading to Win7. In reading through this thread, lots of people are talking about restrictions, different versions, etc....and I'm kinda lost. Could someone please summarize for me what I might be sacrificing if I buy this $29 Win7 [I am a student] and upgrade my netbook? For instance, will this version even run on my netbook? Does it ever expire? Will my netbook be slower than with XP? Is this version missing abilities that XP has? It sounds like a Windows upgrade requires a lot of research and decision making. Really makes me appreciate my Mac!
 
I'm picking up my $10 copy of Win7 Ultimate and two copies of the Win7 Home Premium through school at $30. Why? My father wants to upgrade both of his Vista laptops so I'm hooking him up on that. And I'm keeping Win7 Ultimate in case I grab an MBP/Air in the next year and need Win7. Who knows. There's medical apps that only run on Windows and I can't figure it out when there's SOOOO many Macs floating around with the Dr's, medical labs etc... :confused: I saw all the iMac's and then I sat down to see Windows XP sadness. :mad: :(
 
Invizzible said:
Please excuse my Windows ignorance - been on Macs exclusively since Jan 2000. But I just bought a netbook with XP, and I'm wondering about possibly upgrading to Win7. In reading through this thread, lots of people are talking about restrictions, different versions, etc....and I'm kinda lost. Could someone please summarize for me what I might be sacrificing if I buy this $29 Win7 [I am a student] and upgrade my netbook? For instance, will this version even run on my netbook? Does it ever expire? Will my netbook be slower than with XP? Is this version missing abilities that XP has? It sounds like a Windows upgrade requires a lot of research and decision making. Really makes me appreciate my Mac!
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if you're on a netbook and thus are probably only using it for chatting/email/browsing, why bother upgrading to windows 7?

either way, it obviously depends on the specs of your netbook. just google "windows 7 netbook" for tons of relevant links. i would assume that xp would be slightly faster than windows 7 on a netbook, but reviews all over the internet say windows 7 runs quite well on netbooks as well.

i dunno about you but for any major purchase i always do 'lots of research and decision making'.
 
*LTD* said:
And if you don't like my "silly-assed sig", then WTF are you doing on an Apple fan site??
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Better question: Why do you need a nemesis of Apple in order to be a fan of their products? What does this distaste and wishful demise of Windows have to do with how well your Apple products work? Did OSX magically start running faster when Vista tanked? I can imagine how the release of Bootcamp must've really pissed you off kid. LOL!

You're not an Apple Fan. You're just a childish MS-hating loon with a lot of misguided angst. You can't comprehend how the very OS you loath has made mac development all that much better for all of us.
 
don't forget that a lot of recent vista users (people who bought a computer within the past year or so) generally all get a FREE upgrade to windows 7.

2 of my pcs qualify for a free copy of windows 7 including my cheap ass $400 (canadian) htpc i bought nearly a year ago (triple core 2.1GHz AMD Phenom X3, 4 gigs of ddr3 ram, ati 4650 hd, 640gb 7200rpm hard drive, vga/dvi/hdmi out, blu-ray player/dvd writer). try getting those specs with a mac at that price! i actually ran this machine as a hackintosh for a bit to decide whether to get a macbook or not.
 
Invizzible said:
Please excuse my Windows ignorance - been on Macs exclusively since Jan 2000. But I just bought a netbook with XP, and I'm wondering about possibly upgrading to Win7. In reading through this thread, lots of people are talking about restrictions, different versions, etc....and I'm kinda lost. Could someone please summarize for me what I might be sacrificing if I buy this $29 Win7 [I am a student] and upgrade my netbook? For instance, will this version even run on my netbook? Does it ever expire? Will my netbook be slower than with XP? Is this version missing abilities that XP has? It sounds like a Windows upgrade requires a lot of research and decision making. Really makes me appreciate my Mac!
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I would suggest typing the string "Windows 7" <your-netbook-make> <model> into a search engine. You'll probably find quite a community of people who are already using Win7 on your model.

I'm running Win7 RTM on my early eeePC 901XP. I upgraded the RAM to 2 GiB, and the SSD from 8 GB to 64 GB for the Win7 partition. It's faster than XP for most things.

Note that when creating a partition on an SSD, improper alignment of the start of the partition can hurt write speeds by 50% or more.
 
iPhone 62S said:
Alright well watch Supersize Me.

You know what'd be more shocking? Vista Me, someone trying to use nothing but Vista for a month! Even worse if they also have to use a Zune! :eek:
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In all seriousness, the question you SHOULD be asking is: why does Windows have a user base the dwarfs OS X's?

Certainly they are doing SOMETHING right?

Oh, and I watched Supersize Me. *yawn* Where's my fries?
 
AidenShaw said:
Funny that a Microsoft product is considered to have "tanked" when 4 times more people are using it than all Macs put together! :eek:
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Ignorance and inertia.


RazHyena said:
In all seriousness, the question you SHOULD be asking is: why does Windows have a user base the dwarfs OS X's?

Certainly they are doing SOMETHING right?
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Apple sells a Premium product that is priced accordingly. That locks out a significant prtion of the market overall.

You're falling into the "market share" trap again.

Apple sells a closed system, with an OS that is NOT licensed to everyone and their dog (deliberately), and which is priced as a Premium product, effectively locking out a large portion of the market.

Which explains why Apple has a lock on on the $1000+ notebook share of the market.

The market isn't one big market. It has segments to it. It's a pyramid. You've got bottom-end, mid-level, and Premium, if those terms help you to understand the principle that the market is made up of divisions. Apple functions and makes an absolute killing at the Premium end.

Apple, as a matter of course and by design, will have lower market share overall. As stated by Jobs, Cook et al, they choose to lock themselves out of certain segments of the market. A Premium product manufacturer doesn't target certain income brackets - there will be consumers that will be absent from thr target demographic.

It's a coveted business model that others only wish they could emulate successfully. We're at the point now, where if the average user has $1000+ to spend (and apparently, plenty of them do!) a Mac will be near or at the very top of their list. That's quite an accomplishment. It's the reason Ballmer ends up looking stupid, flustered, and tongue-tied at press conferences, especially when he's in a room-full of Macs.

This is what has Microsoft acting so defensive: Windows still has overwhelming unit sale market share, but it is now almost entirely at the low end of the market.
 
iPhone 62S said:
Alright well watch Supersize Me.

You know what'd be more shocking? Vista Me, someone trying to use nothing but Vista for a month! Even worse if they also have to use a Zune! :eek:
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Super Size me is a load of crap. But I guess some people believe everything they see/watch without using their brain. You could go to any restaurant and buy food with high calories/fat and eat that 3 times a day for a month and feel like crap. Doesn't help that this guy went from one extreme to the other, so his body wasn't even used to that type of food. I ate McDonalds almost every day for 4 years when I worked there as a teenager. Guess what? I didn't gain a single pound and was fine. :rolleyes:
 
NNNNOOOOO !! Don't ask that!

RazHyena said:
In all seriousness, the question you SHOULD be asking is: why does Windows have a user base the dwarfs OS X's?
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Don't ask - that will just bring out the tin foil hat crowd and their conspiracy theories....

I wonder how long before Window 7 share overtakes OSX. If it was at 1.2% total in August, it shouldn't take too long after the official release....
 
*LTD* said:
Ignorance and inertia.




Apple sells a Premium product that is priced accordingly. That locks out a significant prtion of the market overall.

You're falling into the "market share" trap again.
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Nonsense. Price is NOT the only factor here contributing to Window's user base, and you know it.

Or maybe you don't...

And "premium" in this context is kind of a joke, even if you capitalize the word in mid sentence for extra awesome emphasis. ;)
 
RazHyena said:
In all seriousness, the question you SHOULD be asking is: why does Windows have a user base the dwarfs OS X's?

Certainly they are doing SOMETHING right?

Oh, and I watched Supersize Me. *yawn* Where's my fries?
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Because Windows got a lot of publicity for being the OS for that IBM computer, then of course got a contract with them.

Fun fact: Microsoft's lack of innovation and imagination has been there right from the beginning, when Bill Gates wanted to call the OS "Interface Manager" and only called it Windows because he was persuaded to.
 
*LTD* said:
Ignorance and inertia.
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More likely is that "it just works". It accomplishes what people need, at a good value.

You also have a lot of choices about what you can get - and "choice" is a word that Steve Jobs hates.


iPhone 62S said:
Because Windows got a lot of publicity for being the OS for that IBM computer, then of course got a contract with them.

Fun fact: Microsoft's lack of innovation and imagination has been there right from the beginning, when Bill Gates wanted to call the OS "Interface Manager" and only called it Windows because he was persuaded to.
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But in "the beginning", it was called DOS .... Fail.
 
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