Catering to the Hollywood crowd and adding in all the DRM did not help Microsoft. The 32 bit version really shouldn't exist because to be honest if the processor is not 64 bit then it really should not be going beyond XP. But as one of the people that ran beta, I did find something amusing about it. Running on a P4 3.4ghz with 1gb of RAM I had a performance increase switching from XP Pro SP2 to Vista RC1 yet after installing Vista Ultimate on the same system it suffered massive decreases across the board, running the exact same programs such as Vent, EvE-Online, Firefox, office 2k3, etc. While some users that are not afraid of all that is new might be willing to pay to upgrade, the price tag they chose to set was unrealistic. At the moment Vista is selling for 144.99 to 319.99 or if one does not need a shiny box or Microsoft's worthless tech support 94.99 to 179.99 for OEM Copys. And the bad news is this is not over, I ran "Longhorn" a.k.a. Server 2008 beta which performed well but again the differences between Vista RC1 and Release lead me to think the same will happen to Server 2k8. And then the matter of Pricing comes into play. The following information was sent to me by Microsoft. All will be available in 32-bit or 64-bit versions, with the exception of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, which will only be available as a 64-bit version. Other changes include the availability of Windows Web Server 2008, a 64-bit edition of Web server. The Hyper-V feature will only be available with 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008. Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent for all distribution channels. Estimated MSRP* are listed by each version below: Windows Server 2008 Standard: $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 (with 25 CALs) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: $2,999 (per processor) Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: $2,999 (per processor) Windows Web Server 2008: $469 Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V: $971 (with five CALs) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V: $3,971 (with 25 CALs) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V: $2,971 (per processor)