Vista Discounts- With Strings, Of Course

Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Jason

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled a second promotional deal for Windows Vista consumer and small business users, allowing them to buy additional licenses at a 10 percent discount over suggested list price and upgrade as many as five more PCs.

The new “Windows Vista Additional License” program targets customers who obtained Vista at retail — either the full or upgrade version — or pre-installed on a PC, and lets them buy up to five additional identical licenses at 10 percent off. Users running Vista Home Premium on a new PC, for instance, are eligible only for more copies of Ultimate. Customers can’t move up or down the Vista version scale.

Under the new plan, an extra license for Home Premium costs US$143 (upgrade) or $215 (full versions) in the U.S. List prices for those editions are $159 and $236, respectively. Other versions are priced accordingly.

These new prices, however, are only slightly lower than those at large e-retailers such as Amazon — where Home Premium sells for $149.99 and $219.99 for upgrade and full — and are actually higher than the OEM versions sold online at discount stores like Newegg.com. At Newegg, for example, Home Premium OEM sells for $119.99.

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One Response to “Vista Discounts- With Strings, Of Course”

  1. XtraSalafy on 24 Mar 2007 at 4:01 pm #

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  2. Mr. Linux on 14 Apr 2007 at 6:35 pm #

    MICROSHITE are the biggest corporate thieves around. Billy Goat oops I mean Bill Gates is the greediest shitebag on Earth. If the low-life charged decent prices for Vista then people may think about moving to Vista. At £400 for Ultimate? Billy Goat is sick in the head! £400 for an OS? The tosser does not live in the real world. And all those Billy Ass Sniffers that go out and buy it for £400, what kind of losers are these?
    Use Linux and flush the goat down the TOILET!!!

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