Surely the easiest way to show your support for the petition by NOT buying Vista thus forcing Microsoft to lower prices anyhow? :shrug:
My Dad’s office isn’t going to it for the forseeable future because they still some 16 bit programs :chuckle: so surely the main people buying it are enthusiast’s? I mean I’m in no hurry to buy any MS product for a while (expect possibly a new keyboard/mouse…they’re Multimedia set is quite nice…)
Leave it a while and it’ll come down anyhow.
I think the issue they are highlighting is not so much that Vista is expensive in itself, but the highly unbalanced prices charged here compared to the US. As long as Microsoft are a monopoly they will continue to do what they want.
We’re not going for it at work, mainly due to the fact we would have to update or replace the hardware of about 10,000 pc’s to use it, even though it will more than likely be a free upgrade at work through volume licensing.
Nothing, but BG will stop support for it at some stage, leaving you open to all types of future-created malware, leaving you open to attack. The phrase including “short, got and curlies” comes to mind. :realmad:
The EU’s suit against MS is one
Extra cost to make an approved EU version
Hardware companies aren’t selling in EU area like other parts of world
and main one because MS can. On the XP end of life it will happen one day about 3 years out. But think of it this way in 3 years the processors will have jumped leaps, your hardware will be end of life, and well by then the next windows will have been released or near, and the cost will have dropped.
So long live XP and if you don’t like XP then by a MAC or use Linux.