silverfox1938 wrote:
> Are we supposed to get some kind of low cost upgrade to Win7??
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> No, and why should you?
silverfox1938 wrote:
> That's the kind of **Slap in the face** answer if I ever seen one!!
> I certainly did not expect MSF to **give me** something, they never
> did why start now? I would expect to pay of course, I have been
> buying MSF products for quite a few years and know that MSF is not
> loyal to it's customers by any means and they do expect you to pay
> by the nose for every piece of garbage that comes out of Redmond,
> goodby ***my dear friends*** keep on paying, Bill Gates needs your
> dollars.
Other than going to some *nix operating system, you'd pay for anything else
too. I'd figure someone who chose the name "silverfox1938" would have a
tougher "skin" and be more world-wise than that.
You asked a very generic questions with no detail/background given. You
received quite a few answers:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...p.general/browse_frm/thread/23ace0c1a60c78ac/
(That's the entire conversation, archived indefinitely in case you missed
any of the responses.)
As far as 'pay by the nose' (new to me, I though it was 'out of' not 'by' -
but things do get warped over the years) - you are asking about skipping a
whole generation and getting the second generation after 'new product'
(Windows XP to Windows 7.)
Considering all the things you may run on top of that product - it truly is
the heart of the machine. Hardware is (has been historically getting)
cheaper because it's so uniform/so "you can swap this out for that" in form.
Dell, HP, Packard Bell, IBM/Lenovo, Gateway and on and on - and those are
just the whole-assembly OEMs - not the parts that you could build it from
yourself.
Operating systems... Well, you could include Apple, but really - they tie
themselves to hardware except for the heaviest of enthusiasts and they
charge for each major/minor update to the system (10.1, .2, .3... .6) and
some of their cost is rolled back into their hardware (although it is the
same with only a minor change to talk to the OS as the Microsoft/Linux
machines use.) So you have essentially various formats of *nix (Linux) and
Windows. More software is produced for Windows because *nix is historically
the enthusiast/geek operating system. (Historically for those wishing to
start their own thread off that.) Supply and demand - no matter where you
live or what you talk about, in the end, it comes down to that. ;-)
It'll cost you between $75-$350 U.S. to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7
depending on what route (upgrade edition, full retail, OEM) you choose to
take and what vehicle (edition) of Windows 7 you get to take you down that
route. It's very simple and very logical.
I mention OEM in this because you will be doing a clean installation really
in any case. I would not recommend the OEM route unless you are planning
ahead and will be griping later about how the license agreement tied that to
the machine you installed/activated on instead of letting you move it to a
new machine, no questions asked.
All things considered, the price of the operating system is much lower than
one would expect it - considering how many other software titles (many
priced much higher) require it or another such priced OS to even work for
you.
*shrug*
In then end - you do whatever you want, buy whatever you want, use whatever
you want. You asked a very trolling and incomplete questions and got some
answers that were accurate but curt, some longer answers that tried to
explain things to you and so on. What you do, how you react is only
determined by you and your character.
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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