> 3) People are willing to pay more for XP. > > I would pay more for XP. Not one auto manufacturer I deal with via my clients have begun to require Vista. Rather, none of them provide support for any client who is using Vista for their factory communications processes. Ditto for another medical center client of mine, their vendors have flat out told their clients to not use Vista, and not to plan on being able to run their apps under Vista for a few months yet. In fairness, this also happened when XP hit the streets.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Punished (financially) for choosing WinXP pro when > orderingGateway laptop > > > 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 > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
