Jeff Bertolucci has an article “Consumers Won’t Pay $120 for Windows 7 Upgrade.” I think many of them will but I agree with him. That is to much money to pay to UPGRADE and you are upgrading to the basic starter version.
I comment on this before… It is to much money… I think this upgrade should be $69.99 and a full buy if you are not upgrading should be $120.00 or a bit more.
I am not sure I will upgrade. Yes, Windows 7 is nice.. At last Windows has a version that of Windows that works. XP is not bad but has a lot of problems… Vista is crap.
I may pay out the $120.00 but it is going to piss me off and I am sure I am not the only person… Why piss off your customers?
If Ubuntu gets a few more things fixed in their software… I will say tell MS to kiss my ass.
The next release of Ubuntu (9.10 on October 29th) is going, I think, to have the ability to install a non-free program…I guess you will pay for it and then you can install it.. Sort of like the Apple store for the iPod/iPhone I guess.
The Linux geeks may not like that… but I think it is an excellent idea…If Ubuntu does everything I want except for a webcam program and someone wants to write one and sell via the install function of Ubuntu then who loses in the deal.
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