Rev. Stewart Marshall > Never been involved in retail marketing have you? Anything > a company does is considered a revenue stream.
> Some companies make money on the front some make it on the > back some make it every step of the way. <marketing stuff snipped> > OSX has come out with how many versions over the past > 10 years? Looks to be about 7 or 8 versions... > MS has had only three. XP, Vista and later this year > Win 7. (I'm a little confused now - there was Windows 3.0, Win98, Windows NT, etc.) > XP has had 3 SP and Vista has had 1. Windows did not > charge for any of the updates or service packs over the > years. Apple also comes out with Service Packs, MS does theirs on a monthly basis with the occasional "Oh! Crap!" tossed in for good measure. Apple's patches aren't as frequent but they cost the same as the ones from MS (they're free). > If a person had purchased XP ,Vista (Home premium) and > Win 7. They might have spent as much money on OS as a > person buying all the different versions of OSX*.* over > the same time period. It seems that if a person buys a Windows upgrade they usually need to buy more horsepower to get performance. Apple seems to be able to deliver OS upgrades without requiring new h/w purchases. So, yes, people running Mac's can upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5 much easier than going from a 2005 era Windows XP installation to Windows Vista installation, but Windows 7 might be acceptable on the XP installation (reported to have acceptable performance on a netbook). > I would like to see Win 7 marketed just over the $100 mark to > get it out there and into as many hands as it could possibly > get into. No matter what type of authentication service you > use someone will crack it. So market the crap out of it, > price it at the sweet spot and sell the hell out of it. Vista gave MS a bad reputation. After all of these patches, etc. it's probably okay, but the reputation lingers on. A good (read cheap) might remedy some of the reputation. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Managing senior programmers is like herding cats! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
