Windows XP prices ( preorder today ) !

[Mrburns2007]

Saw this over on neowin.net, thought people might be interested:

Thanks Bob of Activewin, Amazon.Com, one of the first and best internet American e-stores, has just started to take pre-orders for the highly anticipated new operating system coming from Redmond. The upgrade version of Microsoft Windows XP, set to be released on October 25th, is actually priced at $199.99 (thats just the upgrade version!)

Full rundown of prices:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - Upgrade $99.99 Win98/NT/2000/Me

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - Full $199.99

Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Upgrade $199.99 Win98/NT/2000/Me

Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Full $299.99

As you can see Windows NT4/98 is the minimum upgrade platform.



Heres the link from there to preorder also:
Amazon.com

 

[Stark]

That's $200 I'll never have to worry about spending.

 

[SSP]

Ditto what Stark said.

 

[Mrburns2007]

I still don't get why the prices are so high, they have 94% of the market you would think with all that volume the prices would come down. Mac OS X cost $129.95 and they have what 2% of the market. Oh well I guess when your a monoply you charge whatever you want.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Windows XP can kiss my big white ass.

 

[bigd480]

it's not that expensive... i wish it was a lot higher so less home suckers would buy it... less support for XP means longer before they stop supporting the older OSes...

 

[MrBond]

Yeah, no kidding. $200 for the upgrade to pro? Thats too much, if you ask me.

Oh well, I'll just take it out of the library at school if I decide I want it. Gotta love university licensing agreements.

Interesting to see they're still distingushing the business user from the home user (home vs pro). I thought that would be stopped.

 

[abu]

<< That's $200 I'll never have to worry about spending. >>



What he said!

 

[jaybert]

ahahahhaa...u'r kidding right? $99.99 for a operating system is alot? Look at some applications. They run into thousands of dollars. You could say Adobe has a good portion of the graphics design w/ programs like photoshop and they're charging like $500 each.

 

[warcleric]

Windows XP is pretty nice actually.

 

[konichiwa]

I could pirate XP if I wanted to, but guess what? It doesn't even deserve an hour and a half of my bandwidth, 700MB of my hard drive space or one blank CD, much less $200! Screw Microsoft!

 

[dcdomain]

Eh well, don't have to worry about spending that kind of money. Just going to hop on over to the school library for my copy. Heck, I'll just download it off the servers.

 

[kbm5]

I don't know why people diss Microsoft when they are undoubtely using their products even now as we speak...

I, for one, will search for a cheap copy of XP and buy it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

 

[Pyro]

<< ahahahhaa...u'r kidding right? $99.99 for a operating system is alot? Look at some applications. They run into thousands of dollars. You could say Adobe has a good portion of the graphics design w/ programs like photoshop and they're charging like $500 each. >>




yeah, and like with XP, that's $500 I never have to worry about spending (hey, its just an hour long download!).

 

[Pretender]

<< I still don't get why the prices are so high, they have 94% of the market you would think with all that volume the prices would come down. Mac OS X cost $129.95 and they have what 2% of the market. Oh well I guess when your a monoply you charge whatever you want. >>

OS X costs $30 more than Win XP, is less compatible with most mainstream programs than Win XP, and is less of an improvement over OS 9 than XP was over ME, and you're telline me MS is the one screwing the customers? I think you need some new glasses..

 

[yellowperil]

What's the home version like? Is it like comparing ME to 2K?

 

[GTaudiophile]

$200 is a little more than I'd like to spend, but I plan on buying it when I build my next system. I've heard mostly positive things about it.

 

[charrison]

yellowperil,

The home version is smpless and probably missing a few network features, like IIS and ftp server.

 

[Elledan]

Win2k and Linux still work fine

 

[AaronP]

that's a lot of money that I sure won't be spending. I think I'll buy a used flat bottom boat instead.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

AT members's FTP servers will be busy on October 25th.

 

[Kntx]

What's the difference between home edition and pro?

 

[shiner]

I've tried XP and it's not that bad. It takes a while to get use to some of the GUI changes but overall it was pretty solid. Will I switch to it? Nope...Win2k does everything I need it to, it's less bloated, and very stable.

 

[UberNeuman]

Again I ask: What is the point of moving to WinXP?

There's nothing that's compelling about the OS and seems to be Win2000 with a spit-shine - and suckers that just &quot;gotta&quot; up-grade will blow off about WinXP's &quot;greatness.&quot;

I just don't see it. WinXP is the suckers OS.

 

[Pretender]

<< AT members's FTP servers will be busy on October 25th. >>

nonono, Oct. 25 is when it's officially released to the public. Stores have them in stock many days before, and so do all the good sources. I'd estimate October 10-15th. Not that I'd know anything about that sorta thing....