Vista price cut

According to Microsoft, the price for the upgrade version of Vista Home Premium will drop But in the U. Cuts in the EU, said Microsoft, will be just as dramatic: the Home Premium upgrade will be slashed by In many markets, including India, Microsoft is combining the former full and upgrade packages into one SKU. Earlier this month, the company announced it had shipped the SP1 code, and added that it would not deliver it to users via Windows Update for another six weeks.

The company, however, has not set a specific retail date-of-availability. They want that version in more hands than any other. Joined Oct 12, Messages 9, The company hopes that this will encourage customers still using Windows XP to switch to Vista. Boxed versions of Windows Vista, sold online and through stores, represent less than 10 per cent of all licences of the operating system. The proposed changes are designed to help Microsoft sell more standalone copies of Windows.

Instead of selling upgrade versions of Vista in emerging markets, Microsoft will move to selling Vista Home Premium and Home Basic, a stripped-down version of the operating system which will sell at the same price as the upgrade version. Microsoft has sold more than million licences of Vista since it was released in January Joined Dec 8, Messages 4, As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts. Website Crawl Question 1 Viewer Latest: lunarlander 30 minutes ago.

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Windows Windows 7. Microsoft has sold more than million licenses of Vista since its January release and its adoption has underpinned strong earnings results at the company in recent quarters. Microsoft said it would continue to sell Windows XP until June , delaying a scheduled transition to Vista. Brooks, who oversees consumer marketing of Vista, said he is confident the company can bring in enough new customers to offset the revenue declines from lowering prices after seeing the results of a recent three-month promotional trial of lower Vista prices.

The announcement comes on the heels of sales data that showed a 30 percent drop in money spent for software at U.