Observers are irritated by Microsoft's pricing approach to Windows 7.
Microsoft is making Windows 7 upgrades available for pre-order now, for the low, low (but not quite as low as Snow Leopard) price of $50. But after two weeks, it will cost you $120.
Blogger Mitch Ashley says the hefty $120 price tag isn't aggressive enough, even with the limited-time offer. Without aggressive pricing, you're likely to see mixed Windows environments for some time to come, he says.
Stephen Baker, an analyst with the NPD Group, said he is "very disappointed in the upgrade pricing," according to Computerworld. He says the world needs something to wash the bad taste of Vista out of its mouth, and those prices won't do it.
And InfoWorld writes that Microsoft's upgrade campaign will yield less savings than you might think.
Still, pre-orders of Windows 7 shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list today, as people rushed to take advantage of the $50 deal.
- Jeff Caruso
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Our entire office could care less. We moved to Macs two years ago and haven't looked back.
Yeah, all 5 of your
Yeah, all 5 of your workstations.
Definitely Moving to 7
IMHO Vista wasn't such a bad taste. We tamed it, and it runs well for those machines in our environment where it's necessary. However, we skipped Vista for our "business class users", and are going full-on with W7.
I continually scratch my head at the bad press Vista has gotten overall, because it is no disaster, no Win ME...Give it 4GB ram, disable superfetch, and you're good. Don't like UAC? replace or disable it.
Hopefully Win7 will be "SO GOOD" that people will be able to put aside the stigma they've assigned to MS products. If so, watch out, because in order for MS's OS to be called "good enough" it will be required to be 200% better than anything else out there by MS bashers.
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In the 30 plus years I’ve been in IT I’ve never had any issue with
Any MS product ever poor win me with its bad setup was easily
Fixed with a bit of time and knowledge bad drivers was the
Curse of Win me, poor deployment of documentation about
Left over registry entries from the 98se change over, vista
Was the same install and run it, clean it up and enjoy
No Upgrade Pricing for Ultimate - Mistake by MS
The technical early-adopters are the people who will be promoting Win7, and they want all the bells and whistles. But MS decides not to promote Win7 Ultimate in its Independence Day sales event. Big mistake MS.
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30 years in IT, never had any issue with MS? That is utter BS.
DOS 4.x - a total nightmare.
Windows 1.x/2.x - crash fest
Windows NT 3.1 - freeze fest
Windows NT 4.0 SP2 - OMG hosed so many computers, it was scary
Windows ME - The bastard child of 98SE and BSOD.
I've a bit more experience under my belt, and a much better memory.
Cheers,
Alex C.
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