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I love the comments here and elsewhere... MS sets the price of Windows 7 around or a little lower than the price of Leopard, and everyone makes smart remarks ab
by anon-e-moose 17y ago
I love the comments here and elsewhere... MS sets the price of Windows 7 around or a little lower than the price of Leopard, and everyone makes smart remarks about "no family pack" and "it would cost $4 bajillion to upgrade my houses 8 family computers". I feel sorry for MS now... even when they do something nice, they're still wrong.
Comparisons to Snow Leopard are particularly unfair... If you don't pay the full price for Snow Leopard, you paid the full price for Leopard! How is that actually cheaper again?
Not to mention the fact that Apple can freely move costs among its hardware and software because they're selling all of it, for example charging more for RAM and less for OS X. MS has to make the money on its software.
-- A happy XP user since 2001, who supports and can use any other newer operating system, but likes XP.
- hdfrghjyu 17y ago>MS has to make the money on its software. MS makes it's money on server and Office licenses. Profit on retail sales of Windows are minimal
- anon-e-moose 17y agoIf they set an extremely low price or even gave away Windows, would that not make Office seem more expensive by comparison?
- amelim 17y agoHonestly, I think the main reason why Snow Leopard is so cheap is due to the fact that Apple wants to reduce support costs for old versions of OSX. By lowering the price for the newest version, pretty much every Mac user is going to be running the exact same version, significantly lowering the support costs for old versions.