Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)<alansli...@gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
>>> hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
>>> OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat.
>>>       
>> If you pay £219.99 you've been conned.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>     
>
> Yep. But if you pay *anything* you've been conned ;-)
>
> That is the retail price for the "professional" edition and after the 
> "until December" promotion ends. And as there is no upgrade package from 
> XP that is what most mortals will be expected to stump up.
>
> Al
>
>
>   
That is what was worrying me about having to upgrade, I only have XP on 
all my machines, so I will have to pay that out twice. Wont be doing 
that for a while. I think by the Time Windows 7 comes in proper and they 
stop the support for XP, I will be using only Ubuntu on all my machines.

John.

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