Windows Vista pricing favors PC upgrades
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| While Microsoft's entry-level and upgrade prices might appear reasonable
| on paper to some, and little changed to the five-year-old Windows XP,
| there are a few clouds to this sliver lining. The first is the ability
| for machines running Windows XP to actually be able to run Windows Vista,
| as Microsoft's hardware guidance for new versions of Windows has tended
| historically towards the, ah, optimistic shall we say.
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| For consumers, Vista Home Basic does exactly what it says on the box -
| you get the an OS, browser, search and parental controls but no sexy
| Aero interface and no Windows Media Center (for watching and recording
| all those episodes of CSI: Miami, hooking up the Xbox 360, and
| viewing photos). Those little gems are reserved for users of Vista
| Home Premium, while Ultimate gives you all this plus additional power
| features from the business products like BitLocker encryption, support
| for domain group policy, and advanced and simplified networking.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/windows_vita_prices/
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