Comments on: Windows Vista is scientifically a steal

By: Brian Peterson

Brian Peterson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:59:46 +0000

With the declining value of the dollar, yes it is less except for our export market friends.

Remember how bad DOS was and how much say a productivity suite like Symphony was? Probably about $2K in today’s dollars.

By: Lee A.

Lee A. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:27:30 +0000

why not stick with winxp ? or switch to linux (whatever the distro it’s your choice) ?
cost = 0, productivity doesn’t go down

By: Andrew F.

Andrew F. — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:50:41 +0000

See, I never figured out why people were whining about how much more expensive Vista was. Home Basic is the same price as XP Home. Home Premium ain’t a whole lot more (does it match XP MCE? I don’t know). Business is the same price as XP Pro. (Correct me if I’m wrong about anything I’ve just stated.) And Ultimate? Heh, who needs Ultimate? Not any normal user, and probably not even hardcore users.

And based on this little article, people are whining over even less of a difference than I thought. Jeez. If Microsoft had crippled Home Premium in some way (like removing DirectX 10 or disabling other advanced graphical…stuff) and made Ultimate basically a requirement for gamers like me, then I’d be whining too. But, as it stands, I’m getting plenty of bang for my $240 Home Premium bucks.

My only wish would be that there was a version (or a post-purchase upgrade option) with all the features of Premium and Business combined, but taking out BitLocker and all the other unnecessary Ultimate junk.

By: Tomer Chachamu

Tomer Chachamu — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:43:22 +0000

In the UK and Europe Vista is much more expensive.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:43:54 +0000

Well, for a steal, it sure feels expensive.

By: iBenshi

iBenshi — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:19:09 +0000

Interesting article! By the way Long…got my cap today (Netherland, Europe). Thanks!

By: Robert McLaws

Robert McLaws — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:36:45 +0000

But my ana,ysis had nothing to do with OEMs, as I stated at the beginning of the article. This was about Retail box copies of Vista. OEM sales are much harder to track, and vary wildly over time.

By: Esquire

Esquire — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:06:32 +0000

One problem with that analysis is that the price of PCs has been dropping drastically. In 1995, a relatively well equipped PC would cost about $2k. Today, a relatively well equipped PC costs about $600-700. So in terms of percentage of ones overall PC purchase, the price of windows has gone up dramatically.