Amazon unleashes prices and release date of Windows Vista
The largest online shopping site Amazon.com has started taking orders for the upcoming Windows Vista Operating System in the US, as per reports.
The American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington has even unleashed the prices of different versions of Vista, ranging between $100 and $399. While prices of upgrade Vista versions, as flashed on the Amazon Web site, start from $100 for Windows Vista Home Basic; $239 for Windows Vista Premium; $299 for Windows Vista Business; up to $399 for an ultimate version; prices of corresponding newer versions are quoted as $199, $159, $199 and $259 respectively.
Microsoft is yet to announce a formal launch date or price for its Operating System. The company on tuesday declined to confirm Amazon's Vista pricing or the Jan 30 release dates.
Amazon spokesperson Sean Sundwall said Tuesday that the release dates are best estimates, based on informal conversations with Microsoft and others in the computer industry. It says the software will be released on January 30th 2007, the 73rd anniversary of the day Hitler was crowned Chancellor of Germany.
A spokesperson for Amazon.com, the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet, said the company has started taking pre-orders nearly two to three weeks ago, in response to consumer demand, and that prices revealed on the site have been taken from the latest price list provided by none other than Microsoft.
Microsoft has postponed the release of Windows Vista a number of times, and the OS is already five years in the making. But, the company has in the past suggested that corporate customers would get copies in November while retail customers would have to wait until the New Year.
This is not the first time Amazon has jumped the gun in an attempt to build pre-orders. It also permitted customers to order Sony's next generation PlayStation 3 console months before the company had even set a date or a price.
Meanwhile, Rick Sherlund, an analyst from Goldman Sachs, who happened to be among the first to notice the price listing on Amazon.com website, issued a note to a client saying the pricing revealed by the Amazon website for high-end versions of Vista is more than what he predicts. Sherlund added that the release date of January 30 is almost two months earlier than what he expects.
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if windows vista is five years in the making, doesn't that mean that there is technology in there that is outdated?
"if windows vista is five
"if windows vista is five years in the making, doesn't that mean that there is technology in there that is outdated?" -- that is a stupid comment. Windows XP was 5 years in the making when it was released. There is the "bleeding edge" but it takes years before the technology can be mass-marketed to a group of ignorant consumers such as yourself.