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Vista Pricing Not Exciting
Friday, September 1st, 2006
All of the prices were what Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst for Directions on Microsoft was expecting,
although he felt the Ultimate edition was too high for what it delivered. The bigger issue for him was the additional license fees. An additional license for Home Premium is $215, just $24 less than the full price and the Home Basic additional license is $89. The additional license for Business is $179, $20 less than the upgrade price.
"I think they are totally blowing it with those additional licenses you can purchase," he said. "There are many households with multiple PCs and Microsoft is doing nothing to make it easy for them to upgrade all their PCs."
Then again, he suspects Microsoft would rather people purchase a new PC and get Vista pre-loaded, for two reasons: the customer doesn’t have a bad Vista experience trying to run it on their old Celeron system with 256MB of RAM, and if there is a problem with a new system, it’s the OEM’s support issue, not Microsoft’s. Vista’s Pricing Not Exciting
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