Wed, Feb 7 2007 12:29
bradley
Vista Home Basic to Ultimate
So in fairness to Microsoft, if you take a Home Basic and upgrade it to Ultimate the WindowsanytimeUpgrade price tag is not $249 but $199 so at least that appears to be consistent with the $199 for the Business update price tag. And yes, we can all say that customers should listen to their IT pros when buying computers and all that, but the reality is that you will walk into a customer's location and you will be handed a Vista Home Basic or a Vista Home Premium and will have to deal with it. Or you'll come into spec a network and will have to deal with the fact that half of the computers in that peer to peer network are running Vista Home Premium.
If they are coming from Home Basic, the only domain join path is a $199 upgrade price tag, if Home Premium, it's a $159 upgrade price tag. But the ending operating system is Vista Ultimate. At this time, based on my read, if you don't have a qualifying "Business" OS, I don't see how you can leap frog from the Home skus and shoe-horn your client into the Business/Enteprise ones. I'd love to be proven wrong on that, so holler if I am.
...and yes you can argue that Homes are Homes and Businesses are Businesses, but last night my sister was buying a business laptop and the only OS offered on the web site was Vista Ultimate (you had to call for Business) and if you shopped in the Small Business store you got the initial offering of Home Premium with a "recommendation" to go to Vista Business.
Yes we should listen to our IT pro's advice on buying a computer and order the system with Vista Business.
The reality is something different.....
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