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Will Vista cost $450? (rumor)
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Rumors are circulating about Vista costing around $450, which may have had something to do with its stock price taking a hit today.
$450 actually doesn't seem out of the ballpark, since apparently quite a lot of work is going into Vista. But seriously, who would pay that much for an OS?
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4463/53/
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If true, that's going to make the current level of piracy of Windoze look tame by comparison. Maybe Apple will be able to swoop in with an unrestricted license PC version of Leopard and take advantage of M$'s folly.
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Hmmm... Vista or 75% of a Mac mini. What to buy, what to buy?
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that is $450 AU Dollars, ey
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$342 USD ($450 AUD) for the Ultimate version overseas (probably $299 plus taxes) sounds about right... XP Pro was $299 when it was released, and Vista includes a lot more software than XP does.
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r t f a guys 
Originally Posted by TFA
plus a heap of other things most of us would never use for just US$450 or so.
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Microsoft could charge $1,000 for Windows and people would still buy it; because they have to. The wonders of Vendor Lockin.
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you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Who put Sony in charge of Microsoft's marketing department?
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Oi... freaking vey. Makes sense though they make way more from people buying the box than a real computer. So this will probably just push people with great computers to buy the box, or people with craptacular ones to simply buy a new PC.
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It shows that the freaking economy is booming over un-imagined boundaries.
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
It shows that the freaking economy is booming over un-imagined boundaries.
Not really. When the economy is up things usually get cheaper. Remember the free PC's of the dot com boom?
Unless that was sarcasm. 
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Originally Posted by goMac
Who put Sony in charge of Microsoft's marketing department?
Beware USA!! I would expect all kind of stuff coming from MS, cosmetics, mail order shopping company, a chain of restaurants, an insurance company, virtual pets… and overpriced TV sets !!
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Originally Posted by mduell
Vista includes a lot more software than XP does.
It's only a Microsoft pirate of Tiger and when Tiger came out it had loads more features than Panther and it still only cost me £89
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