Are they nuts?? I mean they trying to get people to go legal (forcing is a better word) and they charge those prices?? Since we here are all pro's and must think of business and customers... Vista Business @ $341 is more likely what we will be installing for customers and doing MCP's worth!

Hell's bells! I found out the pricing of OS X the other day for the first time and thought MS would do well to have a competitive pricing structure for Vista. This is no where near competitive. I wonder how this is going to affect the price of pre-built systems. Dell won't be able to sell Vista PCs for £300 based on the hardware requirements alone, installing Vista on it will add another £100 to the price as well.

Personally, I can't see any home user (or business for that matter) in any rush to change over to XP Service Pack 3

As Baba pointed out, this will have a knock on effect of Personal computers in general. Dell systems will probably be going out for mega money come Christmas time.

Si

I am all for Vista but the prices are ridiculous...so until they drop to under £150 or less...I will stick with XP and Vista betas....