This possibly should be in general discussion but due to the discussions on vista of late I thought it maybe appropriate in here.
There have been a lot of threads stating displeasure at MS's pricing model, authentication techniques and licensing.
With this in mind I can't see or understand why the focus is on Vista.
Windows XP - everyone complained about the cost of XP, so MS released a home and professional version, the only real difference in home and pro was the ability to be part of an AD domain in a business environment, yet I'd put money on the ammount of people buying it because it said "pro" and didn't want to be classed as a home user. Yet the price difference between home and pro was reasonable. MS this time took this futher by releasing multiple versions at different price models and its still getting moaned about. I'm going to use Amazon as a bench mark randomly for this thread.
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition - Retail (ultimate expense)
£313
Annoying activation online and phone
has a transferable license - 1 PC at once
Adobe Photoshop CS2
£497
Online Activation or phone
transferable license 1 PC at once
Dreamweaver 8
£328
Online activation
Transferable license 1 PC at once
Quark Xpress
£886
Online Activation
Transferable License 1 PC at once
Autocad 2006
£1090
Online Activation
Transferable License 1 PC at once
now some of these are extreme examples and specialist business use only, but I'm including them to show the reality of anything from home use to small or big business
Windows Home Vista Premium eddition
£187
online / phone activation
Transferable license 1 PC at once
you'll bulk it up with software that you consider needed for you use like PS CS2 or Dream Wever that costs double that and have similar activation methods - albeit less often.
You'll pay for the hardware required to run this without a batting an eye lid, you'll pay for software and games on top of it
Doom 3
£35
Command & Conquer 3
£29
ten games over the course of the year and you could have bought Vista Reatail
I understand frustration at the terms of the license (although don't agree) and I understand frustration at the price of vista (although don't agree - you have a massive choice of cost and license) Why is there complaints that you need to pay this much to then pay more for the software and games you love so much
(all prices are amazon.co.uk and current of today to try to show a reasonable representation)


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