Vista Pricing
It’s all smoke and mirrors
Back in September I reported on Vista pricing and delivery and at that time Microsoft were trumpeting the news that Vista Home and Vista Professional would hit the shops at the same price as the Windows XP equivalent.
Well now it seems that Microsoft may be engaging in a little bit of smoke and mirrors. Jim Wong, the corporate vice-president of Taiwan based computer maker Acer, is reported as saying that the basic versions of Vista are so basic that no one will want them.
According to Mr Wong the versions of Vista that home users and businesses will buy comes at an extra cost of around 10% over the basic version. So bascially we can expect to pay more.