Quote - Vista's sales have fallen far short of expectations. Seems the only significant market is computer manufacturers who include it as the installed os. Microsoft's response has been to blame the product's disappointing reception on software pirates and Apple's PR department. 

That isn't really a surprise when you look at the cost of upgrading - the problem is if you are running XP Pro you are limited in which versions of Vista you can install and actually do an inplace upgrade - otherwise its a matter of reinstalling all those little time consuming things like photoshop plugins etc..

So from my point of view I can only upgrade to either Business or Ultimate and with Ultimate sitting at around $AUD500+ - at that sort of money I'm a good part of the way towards a new system.

It just seems as though M$ has priced themselves out of the upgrade market

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