Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. Business vs. Ultimate
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up.
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20.8.2007 Home Computer - Home Network - Home Server
In the 1960s & 70s the idea of a home computer was unheard of outside of science fiction circles. Before the late 1980s home networks were unheard of.
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2.12.2007 Half of American Business PCs Can't Run Vista
About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft Teams Up With CompUSA to Deliver Windows Vista Business ..
Through Microsoft’s Volume Licensing offers, customers can take advantage of cost savings and early access to major new product releases at CompUSA stores.
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13.11.2006 Guide to KMS Activating and TroubleShoot Vista Business and Enterprise
Guide to Activating and troubleshoot Windows Vista Business and Vista Enterprise by KMS server was writed by
generalnewbie in our forum.
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14.1.2007 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 KMS Crack Method to Activate Windows Vista Business or Enterprise Edition
If you intend to activate Windows Vista against a KMS server (Enterprise or Business edition only), but having a hard time to find a working KMS (Key Management Service) server that is public available on the Internet, it’s possible to install and set up a spoofed KMS host. This tutorial is a complete guide to properly activate your Windows Vista with your own local KMS server with pre-built and pre-installed activated Windows Vista KMS as VMWare virtual appliance image, without the need to install a KMS yourself.
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13.12.2006 Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 How to Downgrade from Windows Vista Business or Ultimate OEM Edition and Install Windows XP Professional
A lot of users still don’t getting used to Windows Vista. A lot of reviews have been labeling Windows Vista as bloated, hard to use, tons of compatibility issues, inconvenient, not user friendly, not stable and etc.
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22.8.2008 Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business?
I really enjoyed watching this recent interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich on Microsoft’s TechNet Edge.
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9.9.2008 Windows 7: What’s coming for business users
Microsoft showed off publicly for the first time Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on October 28.
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28.10.2008 Will business users bite on Windows 7?
Most of the Windows 7 features Microsoft has demonstrated and touted for the past few months have been aimed at consumers, not business users.
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4.3.2009 New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Microsoft bolts business intelligence to Office
Microsoft will offer analysis and planning applications as an add-on to its Office suite, a move meant to steer corporate customers away from specialised business-intelligence providers.
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6.6.2006 Microsoft business unit head to depart
Doug Burgum, the executive behind Microsoft's business software unit, will leave the company next year.
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12.9.2006 Vista's business sales stronger than expected
Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group.
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11.1.2007 Microsoft Pledge: No More WGA Funny Business
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has been painstakingly reviewing the operations and procedures behind its Windows Genuine Advantage license validation tool, with a view to ironing out glitches that have cause problems for legitimate Windows users.
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22.11.2007 Microsoft reports rise in core business profits
Microsoft rode a wave of global strength in the personal computer market to report growth in profit and sales in the first quarter of its 2006 fiscal year, slightly exceeding analysts' expectations.
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Microsoft in $500 million business services push
said on Thursday it plans to spend $500 million over the next year trying to persuade businesses to use its software rather than hire International Business Machines consultants.
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17.3.2006 Microsoft to Expand Business Intelligence Product Line
REDMOND, Wash. ? June 6, 2006 ? Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a complete performance management (PM) application including business scorecarding, analytics and planning functionality that enables companies to more effectively plan and manage their businesses.
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7.6.2006 Microsoft offers free small-business software
Microsoft Corp. has turned its accounting suite for small businesses into two separate offerings, one of which users can download for free starting Monday.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Preps Business Antivirus, Antispyware Product
Long-awaited Forefront Client Security software is ready for launch next month, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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25.4.2007 Windows Mobile Business Value Assessment and ROI Calculator
I'm not sure how many of you ever need to create a business case for a Windows Mobile deployment, but if you do, we have created a GREAT tool for you.
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19.7.2007 Windows Small Business Server 2008 Has RTM'ed
Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008.
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22.8.2008 Windows Essential Business Server 2008 RC1 download
Public Preview Software – Release Candidate 1 Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 is an integrated and affordable solution that offers the Microsoft software midsize businesses require - preconfigured, integrated and manageable from a single administrative console, and at a significant discount compared to standalone products.
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21.7.2008 Top Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
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2.3.2006 Microsoft earnings hit target; client, business divisions shine
Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings hit their targets courtesy of a Vista and Office 2007 boost.
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20.7.2007 New Vista Home Page Launches
Microsoft has launched the new vista home page.
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29.1.2007 Microsoft: virtualization not mature enough for home Vista users
In general, nobody reads end-user license agreements (EULAs). They are long, boring, and full of legalese that few people care to take the time to understand. Occasionally, however, unusual wordings in EULAs are used to question a company's policies and intentions, especially when that company is Microsoft.
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25.11.2006Amazon Begins Selling Windows
Vista
Online retailer Amazon.com has
begun to accept pre-orders for
Windows Vista, which it says
"will be released on
January 30, 2007." The
company is charging $399 USD
for the Ultimate Edition of
Vista, $239 USD for Home
Premium and $199 USD for Home
Basic. Vista Business is
priced at $299 USD...
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29.08.2006Microsoft Windows Vista
Editions Finalised
According to sources close to
Microsoft, the company has
finalised the editions that
they will be releasing mid-end
of October 2006.
To co-inside with the 5 year
anniversary of Windows XP,
Microsoft will release the
following editions:
-Windows
Vista
-Windows Vista
Business
-Windows Vista
Business N
-Windows Vista Home
Basic
-Windows Vista Home
Basic N
-Windows Vista Home
Premium
-Windows Vista Small
Business
-Windows Vista
Ultimate
Microsoft is clearly
adhering to the European
Commissions ruling that an
unbundled version of Windows
(without Windows Media Player)
needs to be available to all
OEMs and retail outlets hence
forth.
Unfortunately we're unsure
of the specifics of each
version as this has not been
finalised yet.
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13.02.2006Consumer Versions of Vista Available Early
mwave.com lists several
editions of Windows Vista as
in stock and ready to
ship
Although the official launch
of Windows Vista won't take
place until January 30, that
hasn't stopped some online
retailers from making the
operating system available
early. mwave.com is listing
three Vista SKUs on its
website that are in stock and
ready to ship.
The OEM versions
of Vista listed on
mwave.com's website are
significantly cheaper than the
retail pricing for Vista
listed below:
* Windows Vista Home Basic,
$199/$99.95
* Windows
Vista Home Premium,
$239/$159
* Windows
Vista Business,
$299/$199
* Windows
Vista Ultimate,
$399/$259
The editions available
include Vista 32-bit Home
Basic OEM (Microsoft Part
Number: 66G-00576) for $89.90,
Vista 32-bit Home Basic OEM
3-pack (Microsoft Part Number:
66G-00613) for $268.90 and
Vista 32-bit Business OEM
(Microsoft Part Number:
66J-02289) for $139.90. As of
today, there were no listings
for Vista Home Premium or
Vista Ultimate on the
site.
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22.01.2007IBM Recommends Windows XP
If you shop online for a new Windows computer, every manufacturer recommends Vista on their web site. For home use they all suggest Vista Home
Premium, for business use, Vista Business gets the nod. All the manufacturers sell other versions of Vista of course, most if not all sell Windows XP
too, yet their websites universally recommend Vista Home Premium or Business.
Except IBM.
Yes, IBM no longer
plays in this game. Back in 2005, IBM
sold their personal computer division to Lenovo.
However,
IBM still
sells their old notebook and desktop computers, albeit as "IBM Certified Used Equipment".
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15.12.2007Windows Vista Ultimate explained
Windows Vista comes in several
different incarnations. But
essentially there are two
pathways -- the home user and
the business user. However,
at the very top of the pile is
the Windows Vista SCU that
gives you everything that is
in both the top of the lines
business editions and home
editions -- Windows Vista
Ultimate.
The main
attraction of Windows Vista
Ultimate is that users get all
the professional features of
Windows Vista Business like
domain logon, full backup,
full Remote Desktop support,
and so forth as well as the
full feature set of Windows
Vista Home Premium such as
Media Center, XBox 360
integration, etc.
But Microsoft sweetens the
deal for Windows Vista
Ultimate users in the form of
Windows Vista Ultimate Extras.
Ultimate Extras is an on-going
series of downloadable content
that allows Microsoft to
deliver some outstanding new
features to Ultimate users
even after release.
This week at CES, Microsoft
unveiled the first set of
Ultimate Extras including
Windows
DreamScene, a game, bit
locker support, a photo
manipulation application, and
multi-language on a single PC
support.
Microsoft
watcher Mary Jo Foley has more
details on this below.
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10.01.2007Principled Technologies Tests Windows Vista SP1
Nick White: When Windows Vista was originally released just over a year ago Microsoft commissioned Principled Technologies to compare the overall
responsiveness of Windows Vista to Windows XP SP 2 for some common business and home tasks. With the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Principled has updated their results.
Principled Technologies concluded the following when comparing business scenarios:
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP
performed comparably on most test operations. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a half second.
Significant differences of over a second occurred on only nine of 128 measures; Windows Vista SP1 led on eight of those.
- Windows Vista
SP1 was noticeably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common business operations.
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 was
more responsive than Windows Vista on most comparisons. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a quarter
second.
Principled Technologies also concluded the following when comparing home scenarios...
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27.02.2008Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies
measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks. The
results show that SP1 performs on par with Vista RTM and Windows XP.
The test show that as with Windows Vista RTM, overall performance is
on par with Windows XP. It’s important to remember that Windows Vista is a more advanced operating system, which includes many more capabilities
than Windows XP. By default, Windows Vista includes antispyware, a search indexer, and the shadow copy service. All these work in the background,
providing important services to customers, but they of course take up a portion of the PCs memory and processor resource.
On several common
business and home operations Windows Vista SP1 was noticeably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP.
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28.02.2008New Vista Home Page Launches
Microsoft has launched the new
vista home page. The new look
is more clean, more
professional. They also
updated the Windows home page.
Anyway, check it out for
yourself.
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29.01.2007Windows 7 Home Premium beta released to testers
A trusted source has indicated that Microsoft has released Windows 7 Home Premium beta to a select group of 1000 users to get a firsthand look at the
next major release of Windows. The Home Premium beta comes listed with an assortment of features, few less than the public release of Windows 7 due
on Friday to everybody, mentioned in tonight's annual CES keynote. The Home Premium is a perfect suit for home users, with a cheaper price tag,
compared with Vista Home Premium, to Vista Ultimate, and a few less built in programs, that are only available to the full version.
Read full story.....
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08.01.2009Microsoft was advised not to brand Home Basic as Vista
A key area of controversy in an ongoing lawsuit is whether Microsoft misled consumers by allowing computer makers to label PCs as "Vista Capable"
when they could only run the most basic version of the Vista operating system, known as Vista Home Basic. Turns out Microsoft was advised to not put
the Vista name on Home Basic computers at all.
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22.01.2009Microsoft Windows Vista is now on MSDN & Connect
Thanks Andareed who
posted this news in our
forums, yes thats right MSDN
users need no longer to
wait.
Initial
reports are that this is
different from the leaked
version that has been
available for about a week on
all sorts of torrent sites,
the hash is different:
en_windows_vista_x86_dvd_X12
-34293.iso =
b71e04564ca22e4d9928e59298eff8
7cf62b382b
LRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso
(BillGates) =
b82590481755ba3420e7314bf82b89
16a90963b5
This
single download includes the
following Windows Vista
editions:
- Windows Vista
Business
- Windows
Vista Business N
- Windows Vista Home
Basic
- Windows Vista
Home Basic N
- Windows
Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Starter
- Windows Vista
Ultimate
The product
key used to install Windows
Vista will determine which
edition will be installed. The
product keys used to install
Windows Vista Business N,
Windows Vista Home Basic N,
and Windows Vista Starter are
not currently available.
Also US testers may
find an invitation to download
any version of Vista final
they choose (a product key is
then supplied for the version
specified) my source tells me
that international users will
start to see this appearing on
their connect page within the
next day or so. It's unclear
if every tester will get a
full version of their choice.
We'll update this when
Microsoft gets back to us.
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17.11.2006Dell promises to protect business customers' right not to use Vista
If you're a business customer of Dell, you might have to purchase Vista with your PC, but that doesn't mean you have to use it. Today, Dell is
trying a new way to satisfy both business users' wants and Microsoft's licensing requirements...
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26.04.2008Consumer Versions of Windows Vista Available Early
The official launch of Windows
Vista is planned for January
30. Some online retailers
have, however, made the
operating system available
early. mwave.com states that
it has Vista 32-bit Home Basic
OEM for $89.90, Vista
32-bit Home Basic OEM 3-pack
for $268.90 and Vista
32-bit Business OEM for
$139.90, all in stock and
ready to ship. Vista Home
Premium and Vista Ultimate are
currently unavailable.
Customers are limited to two
copies of Vista Home Basic OEM
or Vista Business OEM and they
must be purchased with
hardware for licensing
reasons. You can probably get
away with ordering a really
cheap piece of hardware and
still saving a lot over the
retail price of Vista.
Overclockers UK has previously
also started listing OEM
versions of Vista.
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22.01.2007Microsoft Partners: Vista Campaign Was Deceptive
Microsoft may soon be
defending itself from a class action lawsuit over its
'Vista Capable' marketing campaign, and several of the vendor's channel partners aren't the least bit surprised.
Microsoft
launched the Vista Capable campaign in order to keep PC sales strong after its decision to delay the release of Vista to consumers until after the
2006 holiday season. Consumers who bought a PC with the 'Vista Capable' sticker would get an XP machine and then later be eligible for a free or
discounted upgrade to Vista.
What the campaign didn't specify was which of the four versions of Vista -- Home Basic, Home
Premium, Business, or Ultimate -- a PC was capable of running. And according to solution providers, therein lies the rub.
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14.02.2008Microsoft Readies 50% Price Cut for Windows Vista ... in China
Microsoft is cooking healthy
price cuts for its latest
operating system, Windows
Vista. The price tag for the
Home Edition of Vista will be
cut in half. But the
additional editions of the
platform will not be
overlooked by the discounts.
While the piece of news was
not confirmed directly by
Microsoft it apparently came
from 8844.com, a Beijing
Federal Software online
software distributor,
according to
Interfax
. The only catch to the Vista
price drop is that it will be
valid only for China. And
while Vista Home Basic will be
sold at half the price, the
remaining editions of the
operating system will
apparently receive 10% off.
"Microsoft
is going to announce the price
drop this afternoon,"
revealed Zan Xiaoqin, a
representative of 8844.com.
"The home edition of Vista
will now sell at RMB 499
($66), about half the previous
price. Meanwhile, the prices
of the business and ultimate
editions will also drop about
10 percent."
Microsoft's move comes on
the heels of the largest
takedown of a software
counterfeiting syndicate
located in the southern
Chinese province of Guangdong.
Backing efforts from the FBI
and Chinas Public Security
Bureau, Microsoft applauded
the shutdown of a global
bootlegged software
manufacturing and distributing
business worth an estimated $2
billion. And while sales of
pirated copies of Windows
Vista are increasing,
legitimate licenses of the
operating system in China are
gathering dust on store
shelves...
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02.08.2007Discover Windows Vista Home Premium
Columnist S.E. Slack shares
her favorite features of
Windows Vista Home Premium...
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23.11.2006Powerline home networking could come to Vista
DS2 now claims to be the only powerline vendor offering on-board support for the LLPD network mapping protocol in Microsoft's Vista. But is LLPD
really simple enough for use in home networking?..
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05.01.2008Microsoft sabotaging desktop virtualisation
Microsoft's last minute
decision last week not to ease
virtualisation restrictions
for Windows Vista are designed
to "delay market adoption of
competitive virtualisation
software" and are
"unjustified", analyst firm
Gartner charged in a news
analysis.
The
software vendor last week was
planning to change the
licensing terms for Windows
Vista Home Basic and Windows
Vista Home Premium, allowing
users to run the software in a
virtual compartment. The
changes would also further
ease virtualisation
restrictions for Vista
Ultimate and Vista Business,
which currently lack support
for the Bitlocker data
encryption technology and have
restrictions on digital rights
management (DRM).
Microsoft however pulled
the planned changes at the
last minute and without
explanation.
Gartner
alleges that Microsoft is
delaying the licensing changes
because it wants to slow down
the desktop virtualisation
market. The firm currently
lacks a competitive
virtualisation product and
isn't expected to catch up
until 2009. ..
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26.06.2007Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
"TechWeb has posted an
article regarding Vista's new
license and how it allows you
to only move it to another
device once. How will this
work for people who build
their PCs? I have no intention
of purchasing a new license
every time I swap out
motherboards. 'The first user
of the software may reassign
the license to another device
one time.
If you
reassign the license, that
other device becomes the
"licensed device," reads the
license for Windows Vista Home
Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate,
and Business. In other words,
once a retail copy of Vista is
installed on a PC, it can be
moved to another system only
once. ...
Elsewhere in the license,
Microsoft forbids users from
installing Vista Home Basic
and Vista Home Premium in a
virtual machine. "You may not
use the software installed on
the licensed device within a
virtual (or otherwise
emulated) hardware system,"
the legal language reads.
Vista Ultimate and Vista
Business, however, can be
installed within a VM.'"
Overly Critical Guy points out
more information about changes
to Vista's EULA and the new
usage restrictions. "For
instance, Home Basic users
can't copy ISOs to their hard
drives, can't run in a
virtualized environment, and
can only share files and
printers to a maximum of 5
network devices."
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13.10.2006Final Windows Vista SKUs
Prices Leaked
News posted at
thenay's
place
In another move to
make people ready as we're
heading to the Windows Vista
Beta 2 release at WinHEC,
which begins tomorrow, some
informations that are
apparently the final Windows
Vista prices, classified by
product editions (SKUs) just
leaked over the web. There you
go:
-Windows
Vista Home Basic - 200? or
255.55$ or 135.95?
-Windows Vista Home Premium
- 400? or 511.10$ or
271.90?
-Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition - 500? or
638.88$ or 339.87?
-Windows Vista Business -
650? or 830.54$ or
441.84?
-Windows Vista
Enterprise - 800? or 1,022.20$
or 543.80?
I'd
still like to remind you that
Microsoft did not actually
officialize them, but the
sources that told that are
apparently good.
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