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Windows Vista Ultimate to cost $450?
Interested in getting that "Ultimate" version of Windows Vista? Be prepared to pay a bit for it. iTWire is reporting that Windows Vista Ultimate will come with a price tag around $450. As Ryan over at Engadget points out, that's about as much as a budget Dell system will cost you. Ultimate combines the features of Vista Business and Vista Home. For comparison purposes, Windows XP Professional currently goes for $300 at retail.
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Subscribe to commentsDiddleMay 30th 2006 1:23PM
I mentionned it over there - it's too damned expensive. If MS wants everyone using its OS, they need to drop the price. If they were to charge $50 apiece, EVERYONE would use a LEGAL copy (well, not everyone, but you get the point). Software shouldn't cost that much when it's a standard - Acrobat, Photoshop, Office... they should all cost under $100!
PeterMay 30th 2006 2:33PM
That is a lot of money, but almost no one gets their OS at retail. Virtually everyone gets it bundled and I would suspect even more people that usual will with Vista due to the hardware requirements. If you have to get new hardware anyway, there is no cheaper way to get the OS than with the hardware.
DG10050May 30th 2006 5:21PM
To #2
I build all of my computers. Therefore, I always get my OS at retail. Although, I try to get it OEM from somewhere like Newegg if I can, since it's much cheaper. I've always been happy that I could build a pretty sweet PC for about $600-$700. Now I'm going to have to add $450 to that to upgrade to Vista. Hopefully they'll have some sort of special upgrade price like they usually do.
BrettMay 30th 2006 7:46PM
Wow... that's triple the cost of OSX.
MikeMay 31st 2006 10:19AM
That's correct, Brett -- and you get one-tenth the security and maybe half the ease of usability. Anybody who pays this -- please contact me, I have a slightly used Shittle I will part with for a mere $100,000.
Myspace LayoutsMay 31st 2006 9:20PM
its probably that high to offset the costs of all the pirated ones