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People are buying Vista on Ebay for $88
When I finally got around to putting some old parts on ebay I almost didn't even bother with some copies of Vista. To my shock the first one just sold on ebay for almost $90.
Are these becoming collectors items or do some folks _really_ not want to upgrade in 2013?
Vista rocks?
- brothe2000 13y agoA lot of people buy a lot of crap on ebay for outrageous prices. Might be Microsoft trying to prop up the market!
- astrodust 13y agoLike $50 gift certificates sold for $80.
- dangrossman 13y agoGift certificates make sense. The buyers are people without credit cards that want to shop at those stores. They can get money into a PayPal account to buy things on eBay, but those stores don't take PayPal.
- mschuster91 13y agoProbably someone who can't use 7 due to missing driver support.
- bni 13y agoPeople that had Vista on their previous computer and had recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8, and found out that it sucks?
- benbristow 13y agoWell, I'd rather have people using Vista and XP. I don't see what's wrong with Windows 7 though if you don't like Windows 8's interface. (Even though there's a few cheap paid and free tools to make it behave pretty much exactly like Windows 7 if you don't want to embrace change).
- astrodust 13y ago"Embrace change" and "turn my computer into an Xbox" are two different things.
- dangrossman 13y agoAside from a different start menu, Windows 8 is nothing but Windows 7 with some more fat trimmed. On the desktop, you can't easily tell them apart. Why would you describe it in such extreme terms?
- astrodust 13y agoIt's the new direction Microsoft's taking with their interface formerly known as Metro design theme. The "tiles" concept works well on touch devices, but is a complete failure on large-screen computers with a keyboard and mouse. I'm aware you can turn it off, but if you're disabling their flagship feature, why even bother upgrading to Windows 8 at all? It's expensive for anyone in Windows 7 with very, very little benefit.
- kohanz 13y agoI clicked on this thread thinking "Surely they aren't talking about Windows Vista, there must be some desirable product with the same name..."