Windows Vista Prices and Release Date Leaked

Nieske writes "Prices and the release date for Windows Vista have leaked online. Ed Bott's Microsoft Report has information on pricing, and the release date is currently January 30th, 2007. Are they really going to make the deadline this time?" From the ZDNet article: "In Canada, at least, the rumors of a 'modest' price increase were true, based on this list. Will these same relative prices hold true in the U.S.? Who knows? But if they do, then it's mostly good news for Windows customers. There's no price increase for Home Basic. Home Premium, the Vista version that maps most closely to the OEM-only Windows XP Media Center Edition, will finally be available as a retail product for a slight bump over the Home Basic product, similar to the $39 premium typically charged by large OEMs for Media Center upgrades. And Vista Business buyers will get a break with a small discount relative to XP Professional."

Re:Not Quite

[johnlittledotorg]

But "leaked" just makes it sound so so cool. I have to jump right in and post it on my blog too. Gotta show the peeps I have my ear to the streets!

Re:from the article, price list

[TheGreek]

I want to see the OEM version prices. Nobody here normally pays full retail price for Windows.

Is "OEM" some new BitTorrent client?

Re:from the article, price list

[Dance_Dance_Karnov]

remove "full retail price" from your comment, and you would be closer to the mark.

me too

[JeanBaptiste]

whether its the stellar video driver support, or the fantastic sound card support, to the plethora of games and business apps that all work flawlessly without hours of tweaking.... you're right, linux kicks ass.

Re:from the article, price list

[legoburner]

In real money:

Windows Vista Ultimate 22.9 g / gold
Windows Vista Business 18 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Premium 14.2 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Basic 12.3 g / gold
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 14.2 g/ gold
Windows Vista Business Upgrade 12.3 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade 9.4 g / gold
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade 6.1 g / gold

That's a lot of gold arrrrrr.

Changed to Tuesday because....

[FerretFrottage]

that way they can release all the required patches on the same day.

Re:No Vista for Christmas?

[cp.tar]

Well, they're announcing January 30th now. So I guess they still have time till next Christmas.

Re:from the article, price list

[cyclop]

But his karma whoring allows my total laziness to even avoid clicking TFA, so I can just scroll down the thread!

I didn't need this...

[Anonymous Coward]

to figure out Vista's release date.

i was just going to watch the Weather Channel and check for frost warnings for Hell and its surrounding counties...

Re:from the article, price list

[rbarreira]

The really funny thing of course is that the BSD & Linux guys are going to laugh at both the Apple & MS fanboys arguing over which of their overprices OSes is cheaper ^_^

While the Apple & MS fanboys laugh at them about how many weeks they take to set up WPA2 on a wireless connection (if they even can).

Questions and Answers

[VincenzoRomano]

Are they really going to make the deadline this time?

I would rather ask:
Are they really going to make a release that will resist to cracking more than 15 minutes?
You all know both answers, however.

Re:Yawn. Nothing to see here, please move along.

[eln]

No, clearly nobody cares about Vista. This is obvious when you look at the total lack of coverage it receives on sites such as Slashdot.

Re:from the article, price list

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are there so few of them? I want a copy that customized for me.

I can't wait to watch tech support with all of these versions floating around.

User: "I have Windows Vista, and I want to do x, can I? How do I?"

Tech: "Uhhhh...god. Ummmm, what version of Vista do you have?"

User: "Version, what version? It's Vista."

Tech: "Is it Home Basic, Home Premium, Homosexual, Gamer, Business, Business Gamer, I Think I'm Running A Business But Might Be Delusional, OpenVista, NetVista, Free...oh wait, Ultimate?"

User: "It's Home...I think."

Tech: "Which Home?"

User: "I just want to do some network stuff. sob-sob-sob"

Tech: "Is it 9:00am yet? I need a drink."

Re:from the article, price list

[spidereyes]

More like:

Windows Vista Ultimate 1 leg 1 arm
Windows Vista Business 1 leg 1 ear
Windows Vista Home Premium 1 arm 3 toes
Windows Vista Home Basic 1 eye 1 ear (you won't be getting Aero anyway)
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 1 arm 4 toes
Windows Vista Business Upgrade 1 arm
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade 1 ear 3 toes 2 fingers
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade 1 eye

All prices include your soul.

Re:me too

[idonthack]

At first I thought you were being serious. Then I realized you were trying to be sarcastic. You have no idea what you're talking about, and your sarcasm just happens to mirror reality.
 
So you back to your ignorance, I'm gonna go play some Quake 4.

Re:from the article, price list

[jkabbe]

Wouldn't it be more useful to list the prices in a gold currency that most people here probably have, like WoW gold? Currently the exchange rate seems to be 0.173 USD per gold, which makes Windows Vista Ultimate come out to about 2600 gold (US servers).

Compare to Mac OS X

[Anonymous Coward]

Vista Ultimate: $399

Mac OS X: $599. To be fair, there is a Mac Mini bundled with.

Re:Refusal

[ems2004]

For that much money you can buy 5 gallons of paint from Home depot and paint the whole house blue.

Small correction

[Shawn is an Asshole]

whether its the stellar virus support, or the fantastic spyware support, to the plethora of trojans and malware that all work flawlessly without hours of tweaking.... you're right, Windows kicks your ass.

Re:Not Quite

[vmcto]

The 30th is a Tuesday.

Is it going to come bundled with the first security patch or will I have to download it separately?

Re:from the article, price list

[thelenm]

It pays to have a good relationship with the big computer store in your neghborhood, and the address for Newegg.com handy.

Well, don't just tease us... what's the address for Newegg.com?

Dude..

[Savage-Rabbit]

Mark January 30'th on your calendar, the date of the next internet Pandemic.

You are not very well informed. If you had invested in a interstellar subspace communicator and listened to the cosmic news channels every once in a while you would know that January 29th 2007 is be the day the Windows Vista development servers, all the backups along with the Vista development team it self and Steve Ballmer's entire collection of hand made throwing chairs is scheduled to be abducted by they grey aliens.

Obligatory Bullwinkle quote

[Captain Sarcastic]

"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

"But that trick never works!"

"This time for sure! Presto!"

OB bash.org

[xtracto]

Slightly modified to mantain it on topic [bash.org]

[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler
[Th3No0b] Im going to burn all the MS-Windows servers and 1 BSD server
[RageAgainsttheAmish] why the BSD server
[Th3No0b] See? no one cares about Windows
[RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao

Re:Questions and Answers

[symbolic]

Are they really going to make a release that will resist to cracking more than 15 minutes?
You all know both answers, however.

I hear they're shooting for 20 minutes this time. One step at a time.

Re:Dude..

[Jedi Alec]

You are not very well informed. If you had invested in a interstellar subspace communicator and listened to the cosmic news channels every once in a while you would know that January 29th 2007 is be the day the Windows Vista development servers, all the backups along with the Vista development team it self and Steve Ballmer's entire collection of hand made throwing chairs is scheduled to be abducted by they grey aliens.

In that case let me be the first to sign up for X-Com. I've always wanted to run around with a Blaster Launcher.

Re:Not Quite

[Paradise Pete]

Way back when I bought a computer that came with window 3.11, I received a coupon for a free upgrade to win95 when it came out. They could end up doing the same thing.

Based on the way it's gone so far, they may want to use a generous expiration date.