Vista Home Basic has a retail upgrade price of $99...looks like all editions
have a retail upgrade available.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx
Greg
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Correct. My understanding is ms will not offer a cheap 'upgrade' retail
box, people will have to pay full... Unless they go through an oem.
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From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 17:40:30
To:"The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] MS gets serious about activation
love that, wait for Vista @ $400
That will finish me as an OEM. Microsoft and Intel are widening the gap
of
the expense to Dell to build a computer and the rest of us. Asus is
already building lots cheaper motherboards to try to help us compete, all
to no avail. Seldom seen are the Asus true flagship large footprint
motherboards. Most have been replaced by the baby boards. Replacing
$100.00 motherboards with $50.00 motherboards is not going to get the job
done when our price on Windows goes up to double what it is now and Dell
still gets Windows at a token.
I have no plans to purchase Vista and continue building computers.
$399 is the retail full MSRP for Windows Vista Ultimate...the biggest,
baddest version of all Vistas. My guess is that you wouldn't be deploying
Ultimate, nor will you be deploying retail, nor will you be paying MSRP.
$299 is the retail full MSRP for Windows XP Professional. I'm guessing you
don't pay $300 for XP.
