How can people moan about the price of vista.

I wouldn't mind paying the £200 or whatever it costs if the product actually improved my work flow but it doesn't
It's pointless just upgrading simply because it's the latest new hyped product - it has to make a difference and it doesn't.

The 'Wow' starts here

Absolute rubbish !!!
 
For me the asking price of Vista in the UK is a rip-off due to the price that the US are getting. If this is "revenge" on the EU for the anti-trust then all that will do is enourage more businesses to look at alternatives (especially in higher education).

If it wasn't for the fact I should be able to get Vista Business under my works license agreement then I'd be seriously considering swapping to a Mac or Linux. I know I won't be an early adopter in any case due to the high price and lack of decent drivers from certain companies.
 
afraser2k said:
For me the asking price of Vista in the UK is a rip-off due to the price that the US are getting. If this is "revenge" on the EU for the anti-trust then all that will do is enourage more businesses to look at alternatives (especially in higher education).
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i forgot to mention that

Amazon.com price for Vista Ultimate. $380
Amazon.co.uk Price for Vista Ultimate. £354

dont matter which way you take exchange rates, taxes etc..

we're being ripped off.
 
HEADRAT said:
If I look at many items in the U.S. they are much cheaper than the UK, this is nothing to do with MS is it!

HEADRAT
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true

adobe are just as bad. Software downloaded from the same servers gets priced differently for the US and the UK. Guess which is more ? :rolleyes:
 
sid said:
Yes but OS X doesn't work on all pcs (legally) you need to buy expensive macs for it,

Hardly a fair comparison. You can get xp to run on uber cheap pcs, not a chance with OSX which has fairly hefty requirements tbh

sid
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OSX's system requirements are no higher than XP's, never mind Vista's. And you get most of the graphical effects in OSX 10.4 without needing DX9-level graphics hardware.
 
The difference is that Apple are able to work with a unified hardware structure, MS have to make it work with almost everything. It is much harder for developers when they have to write for such a broad base of hardware.

OSX 10.4 obviously knows that a certain level of GFX card will be available, where in XP/Vista it could be anything from an onboard device to a 8800GTX!

HEADRAT
 
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