Cutting Prices Won't Save Windows Vista

[CadCrazy]

Microsoft's recent announcement of a price cut for Windows Vista illustrates the desperate position the company is in. By all reasonable accounts Vista has failed and Microsoft is desperately trying to prop it up and put some lipstick on a very nasty and very flawed pig. Unfortunately, it won't work. Microsoft plans to cut prices is as confusing as its release of multiple version of the failed OS.

In the United States, Microsoft will reduce prices for Windows Vista Ultimate, the company's top-end operating system, to $319 from $399 for the full version and cut the price for an "upgrade" version to $219 from $259 for consumers who already run Windows XP or another edition of Vista.
It also cut prices for upgrade versions of Vista Home Premium, its mainstream product, to $129 from $159. The price cuts vary by country.
In emerging markets, Microsoft will stop selling "upgrade" versions of Vista, because, for many customers, it will be the first purchase of a genuine copy of Windows. The company will instead sell Vista Home Premium and Home Basic, a stripped-down version, at the upgrade prices.


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[ravi_9793]

100 million units of Windows Vista already sold in only 14 months. What more you want!!!

But I do agree that windows XP is biggest rival of windows vista. But situation going to change after vista SP1.

 

[debsuvra]

100 million units of Windows Vista already sold in only 14 months. What more you want!!!

But I do agree that windows XP is biggest rival of windows vista. But situation going to change after vista SP1.

Me too agree that Vista is getting better after the release of SP1 as I experienced some performance increase with the SP1 RTM on my machine. Windows XP SP3 is coming after a great gap and it should have came before. Though XP was a great OS to work with and perhaps the most successful one too in the history.

 

[Kiran.dks]

Same old story repeated again, again and again in almost all threads. Stop it guys. Vista isn't a failure. It has surpassed expectation in sales.

 

[iMav]

^^ welcome to *www.think-anti-MS.com/forum

 

[Gigacore]

^
Guys vista sucks, but not its sales

 

[Faun]

yawn, alas price cut is a welcome gesture

 

[CadCrazy]

100 million units of Windows Vista already sold in only 14 months. What more you want!!!

But I do agree that windows XP is biggest rival of windows vista. But situation going to change after vista SP1.

And main reason for it is OEM's selling their system with vista only.Give them choice and count the no. of units then . You should conduct a survey to find how many out of 100 millions actually using it right now

Also Sp1 is mainly game centric.

^^ welcome to *www.think-anti-MS.com/forum

You better visit www.FaceTheReality.com

 

[NucleusKore]

I'm not here to argue whether Vista is a failure or not

Microsoft dropped the prices pretty quickly didn't they. I wonder how all those who were the first to buy or upgrade are feeling.

The position of customers who bought Vista Ready PCs is even worse; they must be feeling miserable. A class action suit has been filed only in the US, what about other countries?

And Intel, well, they should not have colluded with Microsoft on this Vista Ready thing.

At the end of the day, as said in the article, customers will take another hard look at windows and the alternatives. They will also realise there is an alternative to Intel processors, AMD and Cyrix.

It's good for competition, and finally customer will be king.

 

[infra_red_dude]

IMO, OEMs are not the only reason for sale of Vista. Even hardware manufacturers are. I've had a tuff time getting some hardware work in XP and hence had to go with Vista.

 

[speedyguy]

wit vista they say...ts time 2 say good bye to 16bit app...so vista doesnt support it....wat if i wanna use....i bought lappy fr my coding purpose whr i needed dos but ts not supported....

blv it or not...saleof vista is backboned by xp only.....wit success of xp ppl thot vista is further improved version of xp from ms....i personally found 8 out of 10 ppl saying they done mistake by gettin vista....

it does hv benifits but wat sort.....

looks n appearance - get xp n vista theme

better details abt file transfer etc....agree...hope xp also has alternative

security...agree....better than xp but dun think ts safest.....m a net freak...already formatted my system 3 times in last 5mnths due 2 heavy intrusion of spywares...

now fr drawbacks-

it sells d system resources....my 1gb ram is alwez 60+ % consumed wit no work....

hv to run around places to get compatible programs....16 bit....forget it.....1 happening thing....since 16bit not supported so 2 get cpp coding i downloded borland for windows 300mb...it sed it need framework (some version) to b installed....i downloaded it 50 mb...it sed ts not supported by os....grrrrrrr!!!

slowwwwww.....

m soon planning 2 get rid of vista n go for xp n linux combo

Enjoy~!

 

[MetalheadGautham]

I compare vista with phenom. both hopeless compared to competition.
hope to see next $indow$ look better.
I know for sure that phenom, with its architectural advantages, will become fine when B3 stepping, re-black edition launching, andsome manufacturing economics are taken care of.
But $indow$ is even architecturally bad.
M$ must do an apple and ditch Windows NT for Windows UT.

 

[ravi_9793]

And main reason for it is OEM's selling their system with vista only.

Because OEMs want to give best computing experience to their customers.

 

[CadCrazy]

Because OEMs want to give best computing experience to their customers.

ROFL. Best computing Experience

 

[praka123]

HEHE!@ravi is joking.his posts are satire.he too hates vi$ta.

 

[CadCrazy]

Parkash you should give vista a try to get best computing experience. I can gift you free DVD if you want

 

[casanova]

People just don't want to shift. What happened when Win XP had launched. People said its bad and were using Win 98. The same is happening with Win Vista. It will get its fair share.

 

[ravi_9793]

People just don't want to shift. What happened when Win XP had launched. People said its bad and were using Win 98. The same is happening with Win Vista. It will get its fair share.

101% true.

 

[gxsaurav]

Microsoft dropped the prices pretty quickly didn't they.

It's been 1.5 years Vista was released, it is not quick to reduce prices.

 

[FilledVoid]

Considering the way Microsoft has improved on its released Operating Systems. I wouldn't be surprised if they conjure something up to fix most of the problems in it. As I have said before XP before SP2 pretty much sucked. I don't expect anything different from Microsoft this time. But I'm pretty sure that out of one hundred million alot of it got sold based on its brand strength rather than product quality . And if they don't get their act right the next product whatever it is going to be isn't going to sell like hot cakes in the market.