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From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP phaseout
I'm also looking at getting a new system at the end of this year/start of
2007 -
Hopefully, I'll manage to wait till Vista is shipped.
If not - then it's going to have to be XP Pro, or the Media version
It is sad to see so many people buying into Microsoft's hard push to sell
Windows over and over again as often as they can to each living person on
earth. Their methods include (but are by no means limited to):
Cut rate sales of Windows OEM to the computer manufacturers who sell the
most computers because they sell the cheapest computers which usually are
history in 2 years. The faster the computers are replaced the faster Windows
sells.
Low balling (specifications that are far too low) the hardware requirements
to upgrade a computer's Windows operating system. This is a power play to
hit doubles in Windows sales (get paid twice for Windows for the same
computer). If you are not satisfied with the performance after you upgrade
your operating system, tough! The store you purchased it from will not take
it back once the seal is broken. Again, Microsoft wins! Even in situations
where a computer has the hardware to run a later version operating system,
its motherboard and other hardware were not engineered specifically for that
newer operating system, so performance suffers.
The Windows 95 upgrade, 98 upgrade, Millennium upgrade and XP Home upgrade
all cost $90.00 in stores. Will Microsoft hold to $90.00 for the 5th time in
a row or will they greedily go for more for the upgrade to Vista? Only time
will tell. The point here is why not sell your used computer and deprive
Microsoft of that extra money for an operating system upgrade? Do you
realize that the cost of the upgrade represents from 10 to 30% of the cost
of a new Vista computer and from 25 to 75% of the value of the used computer
that you wish to upgrade the operating system on? It would be more feasible
to sell the current computer and put the proceeds towards a computer built
for Vista that has Vista.
Here is another reason to sell out and move on up to Vista via a new
computer with Vista OEM already installed. Microsoft now says,
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewstory.php?p=588529
This one seems to have slipped under the radar. For many, anyway. Microsoft
has decided that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer. This means
that if you upgrade your mobo, you cannot reinstall your OEM copy of
Windows.
The new license agreement says the following:
"An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a "new personal
computer" to which Microsoft® OEM operating system software cannot be
transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or
replaced for reasons other than a defect, then a new computer has been
created and the license of new operating system software is required."
There goes your computer if your motherboard quits.
Let's start a grass roots move to hold onto Windows OEM for as long as we
can and reduce the incidences that Microsoft hits a double (sells Windows
twice for one computer).
Chuck
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