Comments on: Will Windows 7 Cost More than Vista? http://blog.laptopmag.com/will-windows-7-cost-more-than-vista News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Denver http://blog.laptopmag.com/will-windows-7-cost-more-than-vista/comment-page-1#comment-20408 Denver Tue, 19 May 2009 10:49:59 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=15749#comment-20408 Personally this only seems natural. Inflation is a fact of life, prices rise over time. You can’t expect a product to be sold at the same price point now that it was three years ago. In addition, a free market economy is based on suppply and demand. Based on the massive numbers of RC and beta downloads, and the hype surrounding 7, the demand is there. Why shouldn’t Microsoft make whatever profit they can? Now, the disturbing part to me is hodar’s comment (nothing personal), that he will again stick with XP. If this does show itself to be a common attitude, then Microsoft may be in a great deal of trouble. Given that most people decide to make any purchase by balancing cost vs. benefit, what features of any upcoming OS will it take for Microsoft to be able to untrench XP. Granted in a way it’s humorous seeing a company having to compete with itself, but if a large number of people don’t want to switch from XP over the course of 2,3, or 4 OS’s, how long can MS afford to continually develop new software that doesn’t sell? Personally this only seems natural. Inflation is a fact of life, prices rise over time. You can’t expect a product to be sold at the same price point now that it was three years ago. In addition, a free market economy is based on suppply and demand. Based on the massive numbers of RC and beta downloads, and the hype surrounding 7, the demand is there. Why shouldn’t Microsoft make whatever profit they can?

Now, the disturbing part to me is hodar’s comment (nothing personal), that he will again stick with XP. If this does show itself to be a common attitude, then Microsoft may be in a great deal of trouble. Given that most people decide to make any purchase by balancing cost vs. benefit, what features of any upcoming OS will it take for Microsoft to be able to untrench XP. Granted in a way it’s humorous seeing a company having to compete with itself, but if a large number of people don’t want to switch from XP over the course of 2,3, or 4 OS’s, how long can MS afford to continually develop new software that doesn’t sell?

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