So I had a look today at the cost of upgrading my Microsoft Vista Ultimate PC at home to Windows 7 Ulitimate. I am a majority Apple Mac user (iMac and MacBook), but I have a nice Quad core box for running Virtual Machines and doing odd multimedia tasks on.
The cheapest I could find was from EYO at just under $AU340.
Microsoft, all I can say is that Windows 7 isn’t worth that much to me to upgrade my PC at home. My Apple Snow Leopard upgrade cost me $39.95 delivered to my door. I know that Apple have the whole lifecycle to make money from (Hardware, Software & Online Services), hence why they can discount their OS. But, their OS works (apart from a few small glitches ‘we delete files automagically for you when you logon to Guest account’), and they aren’t superseeding, honestly, one of the worst technical PR disaster’s ever…Windows Vista.
Actually, Vista with SP2 runs pretty well now, so Windows 7 is de-valued just that bit more as a home upgrade.
Microsoft need to look at the consumer pricing of Windows 7 very closely. I know I won’t be a consumer of the product until it becomes a bargain, or I get it for next to nicks with my next OEM licensing hardware compliant product.
