{"id":233,"date":"2006-11-02T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=233"},"modified":"2006-12-07T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T03:37:52","slug":"how-much-will-vista-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/11\/02\/how-much-will-vista-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"How much will Vista Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official release date is now Nov. 30th for business users and Jan. 30th 2007 for Home editions.  The only pricing I&#8217;ve seen released by Microsoft is in AUD so let&#8217;s convert using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x-rates.com\">x-rates.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Vista Home Basic &#8211; AUD$385 = $298.029 USD<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista Home Premium &#8211; AUD$455 = $352.216 USD<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista Business &#8211; AUD$565 = $437.367 USD<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista Ultimate &#8211; AUD$751 = $581.350<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Vista Beta for weeks and I don&#8217;t see myself needing anything in a $300 operating system that I can&#8217;t get out of a free or darn near free one.  In fact, I unloaded my copy of Office 2000 last week and installed the latest version of OpenOffice never to look back.  I might need to use Office 2007 in business at some point but I honestly feel that this may be the release of the first Microsoft OS\/application group that will not become ingrained as a &#8220;standard&#8221; suite to which everyone must insure compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>With so many open source options available now I can&#8217;t imagine that too many businesses will run straight to this OS or App suite simply because Microsoft says come and get it.  There&#8217;s far less hype surrounding this release than any previous Microsoft product.  It will probably enter with a whimper and go down with a bang.  Note to self: move MS stock to Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official release date is now Nov. 30th for business users and Jan. 30th 2007 for Home editions. The only pricing I&#8217;ve seen released by Microsoft is in AUD so let&#8217;s convert using x-rates.com: Windows Vista Home Basic &#8211; AUD$385 = $298.029 USD Windows Vista Home Premium &#8211; AUD$455 = $352.216 USD Windows Vista Business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/11\/02\/how-much-will-vista-cost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How much will Vista Cost?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}