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Microsoft Matches Snow Leopard Price With Windows 7, But Only for Students
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And enjoy giving your money to M$. You're contributing to what will eventually be another M$ monopoly.
You don't need to keep going back to a Micro$**** console with a 50% failure rate to play games.
Hurray! Yet another Microsoft thread on MSrumors for a small but vocal segment of the Mac 'community' to pat themselves on the back and feel smug.
In other news, Microsoft have been giving software away free to Students under MSDN-AA agreements and very cheap offers to those not covered for decades.
In other news, Microsoft have been giving software away free to Students under MSDN-AA agreements and very cheap offers to those not covered for decades.
Sorry man, I'm not interested in teaching anyone a lesson, whatever that means. I want a great OS for the PCs I have left at home, and Windows 7 is that OS.
Good to see MS turning up the heat for competition. In the end we benefit 
But really, thanks but no thanks. Sometimes I run Windows virtually for some engineering programmes and that's about it. I think XP can still do that.
But really, thanks but no thanks. Sometimes I run Windows virtually for some engineering programmes and that's about it. I think XP can still do that.
Fortunately the chance of Microsoft dominating console gaming evaporated long ago. The lowly Wii has been owning this generation, and now that the PS3 is $299 - including Blu Ray, wireless networking, and free online gaming - how many people are going to continue buying the Xbox? You'd have to be nuts. Microsoft is not going to be able to buy enough exclusive titles to keep this thing going (though they are trying).
Like the Zune, the Xbox is just another money burning quest for street cred with the cool kids.
Sometimes the inability of the "mac mind" to comprehend the glaring differences between Apple and MS is embarrassing.
There exists with MS a different pricing structure because unlike Apple... where their OS can only run on their machines (which they also sell)... MS must make their $$ on just the OS. It's that simple. Why is this so difficult for people to fathom?
It makes perfect sense to offer different versions and adding the words, "pro, studio or basic" to a software title with different feature sets and price them accordingly. This has been around forever and is very common even in the mac world.
Comparing the end-user computing experience is one thing but some of you macheads sound pretty stupid criticizing the marketing strategies of a company who has 88% market penetration throughout the known universe.
We need a "pom-pom" room for all the fanbois here.
You pay more than $300 just for the OS everytime you buy a mac...
I jumped on this deal yesterday though as soon as I saw Major Nelson tweet it out!
You have the choice at checkout, you can pick the 32bit or 64bit version.
i don't think i've ever met anyone who pays retail price for Windows except maybe Mac users who run it on their Mac's. It's included with every new PC you buy and the home build people buy the OEM versions which are 1/4 the price of retail. it's cheaper to just pay for technet every year and get WIndows and Office available for download any time you want
Do you even know ANYTHING about Windows 7? Pretty much the only thing Ultimate has over Professional is BitLocker encryption. Which sucks. It can be easily avoided by anyone that has physical access to your system.
Windows 7 is nothing like Vista in terms of version differences. Professional has everything Home Premium has and more.
Also, you're wrong about Snow Leopard pricing. Snow Leopard only works on Intel processors, but the first Intel Macs had Tiger... not Leopard. Tiger users are SUPPOSED to pay for the Mac Box set. Otherwise they're in violation of their license. In addition, Snow Leopard isn't that much of an upgrade over Leopard. Hence the low price. No one with Leopard would pay $100 for Snow Leopard.
Still, though. This is a horrible deal for students. Especially seeing as several websites have already covered how students can get 8 licenses of Windows 7 for just $19 by joining ACM. I got 10 Windows 7 Professional licenses through my IEEE student membership. (IEEE student membership for the remainder of this year is just $15.)
SL does full drive encryption? I thought it only encrypted your home folder.
We all gave MS money (assuming you have iPhone/iPod Touch/Snow Leopard) for Exchange Active Sync.
I like the PS3 as much as the next person, but its online service really isn't as good. It have taken 3 years for it to almost catch up to MS in features (where is my cross game chat Sony
).Does Bootcamp Support Win 7?
I have a Windows business app that I have to access, does Bootcamp support Win7? $30 wouldn't be so bad if I can find someone in college
I have a Windows business app that I have to access, does Bootcamp support Win7? $30 wouldn't be so bad if I can find someone in college
I am.
Why do people buy the Windows OS boxes? They do it to upgrade existing systems, but as far as an upgrade goes Windows 7 is not worth $170, no way.
Keep charging the same for the folks bundling the OS with machines, that's where most sales of Windows come from anyway, but who in their right mind spends $170 on something that barely qualifies as a new product?
Because it a download you get to choose either. You can pay extra for it on DVD, which comes with both versions but you can only install one.
I'm sure it's already been pointed out in this thread, but first of all MS makes their money from software, not hardware like Apple, so it's a given it's going to cost more. Simple as that. Secondly most people don't care to upgrade from what they have, they'll probably run 7 when they eventually buy new PC's. Third, people who do pay full price for the OS (people who build their own systems) buy OEM software which is half the price of retail. $100-120 for the OS is hardly a big deal. And a side note, M$ really? I guess all the PC people should go around saying Crapple
Why reboot when you can just run your Windows app in VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop and then get right back to work on the Mac side without pause?
Works perfectly for me...
First and foremost: Windows is a software company. Unlike Apple, Windows depends on software sales (and software support costs for businesses) to bring in profit. Apple, however, is a hardware company. They simply make the software to run on the hardware. Hence why they don't seem as worried about users pirating versions of OS X. Those users have (theoretically) already purchased a Mac.
As to the second question: That was a thing they did with Vista, which was very stupid. They've learned from it. With Windows 7, there's Home Premium which has a limited feature-set that should be enough for most Home users. Then there's Professional for more techy or business users... which (unlike Vista Business) still retains ALL the features from Home Premium. Yeah, there's Ultimate but the only notable feature not included in Professional is BitLocker, which most people probably don't care about (and isn't that great). (Oh, and they call their business volume license thing "Enterprise"... but they've had it for each version of Windows and it's pretty much the same as Ultimate, so it's not worth mentioning.)
So really there's only Home and Professional now. Just like with XP. Nice and simple.