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| 2009-09-08 17:40:26 | Cost of Progress |
I have been playing around with the Windows 7 release candidate for some time now and I love it. Microsoft appear to have managed to combine the stability of XP with the new technologies that Vista brought to the table rather well. Admittedly it is looking more and more like Apple's OS X, if you are going to copy someone else's work I suppose copying the best is the only way to go. There is one tiny niggle I have with it though... Price. On Amazon the Ultimate version is on pre-order for £229. The latest version of OSX is £23! Now that OSX is running on Intel cores is there any practical reason for the average home user to spend £200 more buying Windows over OSX, especially when they are so identical in operation now. After the dismal failure of Vista I would have thought that Microsoft would be trying to win people back. Pricing their software so high isn't the way to go. Will I buy Windows 7? At the current price, no. |
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| 2009-09-08 18:33:08 | Posted by Jay |
I can't believe I'm actually defending microsoft, but to be fair, most people would only need Home Premium, not Ultimate, which lists at $119. And comparing it to Snow Leopard at $30 isn't quite fair, since a lot of Mac users are saying Snow Leopard should have been a free service update, since it's mainly bug fixes. But really if you're that sensitive to price, just run Ubuntu. It'll always be free, major release or minor service update.
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| 2009-09-08 21:45:30 | Posted by John |
I'm a gamer first and foremost, Linux just can't deliver when it comes to games. Lets not even being to discuss all the driver issues I had with Ubuntu 8.10. That said 9.04 is much, much better. Still wouldn't run it on my main machine though.
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