On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Michael J. Babcock, MCP wrote:
> They're punishing me (price-wise) for choosing the "old" operating
> system:
> http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com/images/gateway_xp_extra.png
>
> What sense does that make?!? Are they saying that Vista is a
> downgrade
> from the old XP?
There are 3 reasons that come to mind:
1) They are being paid by Microsoft to push Vista; either it costs
them less for Vista, or they get "incentives" to charge more for XP
2) They have a standard way of creating their machines; anything non-
standard, such as XP, costs more to create.
3) People are willing to pay more for XP.
-- Ed Leafe
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