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I do agree with Daimaou comments 100%.
My sony VAIO FZ laptop was almost unusable with Vista, until the SP1 was installed. I still have dual boot XP/Vista, and XP is much, much faster.

A also agree with the comment about prices and piate software. that goes also for movies, music, games, subscription to cable/satellite tv, etc. Keeping prices reasonable and affordable would reduce piracy. Why would you risk being cught using illegal software?

Greetings,
Mechagodzilla,
USA

Regardless of your personal feelings towards MS Mgmt, if you owned 85% market share, why would you lower the cost of your product to compete with A?

It makes no business sense. Its not an inferior product or defective.

But because its “Software”, it should be cheap. If this was a “Car”, do you think the Car Manufacture will give you an option to bring your old car back for an “Engine” , Service Pack to give it the extra HP the new 2010 model gives compared to the 2008 one that you have?

Sad thing is so that very often you can not choose. I buy a laptop and almost always I pay for that crappy OS. I don’t want it, I don’t need it. It is easy to get a market share of 85% if the OS is bundled with hardware.

I dont want anything bundled with my PC hardware.

BoeserMann, MacOS X is also bundled with the hardware, like (most) Windows. As far as I know, you can’t buy a Mac without MacOS.
But I’m completely with you: software SHOULD be an option when you buy the hardware.

I’ll also have to disagree on this one.
At least parcially.
I got Vista on my Dell XPS laptop, and at first it indeed sucked.
Switched back to XP, but later on I decided to give it a shot again after SP1.

And it’s working flawlessly… I’ll say again, flawlessly ever since. It is running better than XP, specially when it comes to graphics intensive apps/games.

I didn’t test Windows 7 yet because of Vista working perfectly fine so far.
I’ll test it later when it has matured, which is one thing I’ll always agree… Microsoft sucks in releasing quality stuff.

But much like XP, Vista has matured. And most of the people bashing it now don’t care to update and test it.

I even know lots of people who bashes Vista without even trying it once.

Oh yeah, I also despise the tons of different flavors on Windows.. they should just lower the price overall and make one version (I suppose Ultimate) to make it more attractive and simpler to use/integrate.

Looking at pricing for Microsoft:
- XP Pro (2001): $299 MSRP ($149 OEM).
- Vista Ultimate (2007): $219*
- 7 Professional (exp: 2009): $149* ($99 during promotion period)
- All interim updates: free
* Upgrade price from prior version
- Total: $467 – $667, cheaper if you only need “Home” editions.

For Apple:
- OSX 10.0 (2001): $129
- OSX 10.1 (2001): $0 (if you bought 10.0)
- OSX 10.2 (2002): $129*
- OSX 10.3 (2003): $129*
- OSX 10.4 (2005): $129*
- OSX 10.5 (2007): $129*
- OSX 10.6 (exp: 2009): $29
* Free upgrade only if you had purchased a Mac within 1 month of the release of the new version.
- Total: $674