most expensive software you ever paid for?

Shaye87 · 7 Jun 2009 at 18:20

What is the most expensive software you ever paid for, for personal use, not work's.

Photoshop CS4 here @ £850...

You?

theheyes · 7 Jun 2009 at 18:31

Windows Vista Home Premium. My copies of MS Office have always been student editions.

To be honest, in most cases I can find an open source alternative for things I want - GIMP, OpenOffice etc. so I find I don't often need to spend a ton of cash.

MikeHunt79 · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:17

Windows 95B, paid £80 for it I think...

eXor · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:23

Vista Ultimate.

neil_g · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:26

anydvdhd

lol

njj1046 · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:54

Vista home premium for me.

peige · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:59

Prob windows 95 actually, managed to wangle the rest through work

buachille · 7 Jun 2009 at 19:59

probably sage 50 pro. cost about £800 i think. i suppose i shouldn't mention it as it's for work bookeeping, but i run the firm and i do the books so it's kind of work / personal.

Coolasmoo · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:12

2 x Windows Vista 64, one Retail and the other oem

Memphis · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:13

I love these kinds of threads and the number of people who will openly admit to piracy. And don't even bother giving it the "open source" BS.

Personally, most expensive would be Windows Vista Home Premium. Fortunately we get Office through work for delivery cost only

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Shaye87 · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:14

right so none of you use photoshop/dreamweaver or any other adobe product for example?

Kobrakai · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:14

I have never paid for software before.

blix · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:15

http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html

miniyazz · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:18

I have Vista Premium Retail which came with a computer I bought before I started building my own.. but I don't know that that really counts, I don't know how much it was relative to the rest of the system.
Other than that.. probably Office 2007 Ultimate - £39.99 on The Ultimate Steal!

Edit:

Memphis said:
I love these kinds of threads and the number of people who will openly admit to piracy. And don't even bother giving it the "open source" BS.

On the plus side, his post count = 1024, which I feel lets him off a little on this occasion

/geek

apatia77 · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:29

Vista Premium OEM, I dunno how much I paid, I think it was around £60 from OcUK long time ago.

theheyes · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:33

Memphis said:
I love these kinds of threads and the number of people who will openly admit to piracy. And don't even bother giving it the "open source" BS.

I don't quite follow what you mean by "open source BS"?

Memphis · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:39

I mean those who claim to never pay for software and using the excuse of everything they use is open source

. While I fully agree that there are those out there who do go down that route (at a rough and wildy unsubstantiated guess yourself included), they are in the minority.

GeForce · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:57

Vista HP x86

teaboy5 · 7 Jun 2009 at 20:57

I just laugh at the amount of people who own CS in the photo section. I would say 80% are downloaded.

greengiant · 7 Jun 2009 at 21:02

At the moment, nothing as I run ubuntu and windows 7 RC. I'll probably buy Windows 7 retail when it's released + adobe lightroom as I'm starting to find the limits of linux photo editing.