Windows 7 Starter Rumored at $200... Really?

[bf2gameplaya]

It's called journalism author, go find out the story.

 

[jsloan]

for god sakes how can they be charging us so much, windows 7 is basically vista with some lipstick, man how greedy can you get. i'm sticking with xp it runs great. i guess microsoft wants to help linux / apple increase market share.

 

[jsloan]

[citation][nom]MrBradley[/nom]Just charge like a $50 fee for existing Vista users (at Premium and above or something.) to just upgrade. That will at least make the existing users with the frustrating operating system a little happier considering we have spent the last 2 years dealing with vista's bull%$^@.[/citation]

i agree with you 100%, they should just have priced it at $50 for existing vista users, even that is too much for what is not much more than a service pack with tweaks to mitigate vista weaknesses.

 

[akandy]

Sounds about right. With all the people that didn't buy Vista they have to make up for the loss. I don't think its too much to ask for people to pay these prices for Windows. I don't even make a ton of money and its a drop in the bucket to me considering how much use I get out of it.

 

[tntom]

Already this is hurting their image just by looking at the posts above. What ever happened to the multi-million dollar ad campaign to turn the company image around. I noticed they didn't have one superbowl ad.

 

[Blessedman]

I think MS is not prepared for the shock that is coming. They feel they are going in the right direction, but they are failing again. The steps from 98se to 2000 were too little to hit mass market appeal, even though it is the best OS that MS has put out to date (with XP nipping at it's heels). XP users see win7 as just another vista failure and see no need to update. Vista users see win7 as service pack2 that they have to pay for. Vista works fine after some tweaking and they will eventually see no reason to update (for this price). They should just name this thing VistaSE... I really see this as being one of the biggest flops in MS history. They aren't moving toward what end users want and that is a clean, intuitive, customizable interface. The ability to find their files quickly and navigate to do the things they want to do. Though if they gave us customizable interfaces, it would been hard for them to have sold us XP from 2000.

 

[IzzyCraft]

Don't you love rumors! I know M$ can do some stupid shit but no way would they sell a 200 buck os at oem prices to 3rd-ish world countrys a high schooler could tell you that's probably stupid and wont roll over well you know they stick to their 2000 and IE6 for a reason over there.

 

[fuser]

I heard that Mac is charging $500 for the next version of their OS. Ok, now Tom's should write an article about this "fact" and then we can all start discussing it as if it were a fact and ask why Apple is so stupid!

 

[IzzyCraft]

Lol apple, mac aren't badly priced but apparently to upgrade 2 gigs to 4 gigs of ddr2 667 will cost them 400$ woth of parts a labor. and a 500gb laptop hard drive will set you back 1k or something random like that. I don't get it those prices are like they build macs on an assembly line all the same and for an upgrade they take apart a prebuilt one special order a new part instead of buying in bulk just one at a time and puts it in for you. I know mac osx needs parts from a certian list to gaurtee to work but i mean common this isn't rambus ram made of solid silver and gold.

 

[curnel_D]

"Microsoft has yet to even hint at pricing for its upcoming Windows 7, but websites are now reporting details citing anonymous sources."

This is seriously the first sentence of the article. I think marcus could have done a better job at getting his idea across, so I'll do it for him in very clear terms.

Any source reporting on pricing for Windows 7, and more so with the reports of a $200 starter edition is just another instance of extremely bad journalism. (Unless this article is.) Anyone who reads this article and thinks that windows 7 starter will really be 200 dollars is completely inept at GETTING THE POINT.

 

[falchard]

Source: Steve Jobs.

 

[kvkx111]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FOR TORRENTSS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MrBradley]

If you ask me, this looks like a 8-years-later version of Windows ME to XP. If it goes as planned, MS will have twice as much success as XP.

 

[yoda8232]

So this is how Microsoft is going to make up from Vista's sales, sigh.

 

[Nintendork]

Anyway I'm getting a free copy of W7, never pay for a M$ OS. Or maybe is just a waste of bw and stick to XP Pro SP3 until forever.

 

[jawshoeaw]

[citation][nom]carlostk1[/nom]Two hundred bucks?! Forget it! I am not giving Microsoft one penny. Windows 7 should be and update to Vista users. [/citation]

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[Guest]

Much ado 'bout nothing. Calm down everyone. MS hasn't even finished the thing yet, much less break it down into priced tiers. It's too soon to even make wild guesses yet.

 

[caskachan]

LOL @ MICROSOFT

 

[zedx]

That's too much really. I guess only pirated and OEM copies would be mostly installed. And it's UI and apps are not at all intuitive and windows till now has been very slow and I don't think windows 7 is that much of an improvement. Look at the UI and apps of KDE 4.2, much much better(as far as intuitiveness and usability, the rest is very subjective...) and capable on running on even a P4. Windoze doesn't even have virtual desktops. And I think that the only reason why people use it is because of the apps(which is because of piracy) and M$ is getting too proud and money sucking on that.

 

[Guest]

Little bit of a jump on that story, but you do know that you will have to pay through the nose in any case for microsofts latest and greatest.

the sad thing is ive tested #7 and to be dead fair, i cant see how different it is to vista, its like taking a tank, removing its armour and giving it a spray job, its still a tank.

I will not be PAYING anything for #7 but sticking to xp and vista whilst waiting for linux and apple to come up with better game support, or else its off to the console wars for me

 

[tayb]

They price the starter that high so that people WON'T buy it. They aren't actually selling the software that high to system builders. They do the exact same thing with Office. Word is more expensive by itself than the Student Edition that comes with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint (I think powerpoint, might be something else.)

They could put it on the shelf for $50 but people would buy it and be extremely disappointed so they overprice it. It is actually fairly smart...

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]moricon[/nom]Little bit of a jump on that story, but you do know that you will have to pay through the nose in any case for microsofts latest and greatest.the sad thing is ive tested #7 and to be dead fair, i cant see how different it is to vista, its like taking a tank, removing its armour and giving it a spray job, its still a tank.I will not be PAYING anything for #7 but sticking to xp and vista whilst waiting for linux and apple to come up with better game support, or else its off to the console wars for me[/citation]

You obviously haven't actually used 7 or you wouldn't make idiotic comments like that.

 

[mrubermonkey]

Crippleware FTW.

 

[yoda8232]

[citation][nom]Nintendork[/nom]Anyway I'm getting a free copy of W7, never pay for a M$ OS. Or maybe is just a waste of bw and stick to XP Pro SP3 until forever.[/citation]

Lol, I think Microsoft will make Windows 7 much better.
My friend did a benchmark comparsion in 3DMark Vantage and he video score was 6,000 something in Vista SP1 and Windows 7 beta he got over 11,000 which is insane.

Glitch?

 

[JonnyDough]

1. Vista all but fails.
2. Stockholders are unhappy.
3. Repackage Vista with a few changes and sell it for an exorbitant amount of money.
4. It sells because drivers are finally in place and Vista helped get some people used to the new navigation and features.
5. Stockholders happy again for the time being.