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when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

The last estimate I saw was Feuary. Price hasn't been determined yet.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.

Official reports say they are on target for (release to manufacturering) in November, with Volume license customers receiving the Business and Enterprise Editions first and consumers receiving retail versions sometime in January. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

The Public Beta will be Available in 3-4 Weeks, followed by a February 2007 Release for RTM.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

You are a memo behind. The rtm was moved to Q1 2007.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Official reports say they are on target for (release to manufacturering) in November, with Volume license customers receiving the Business and Enterprise Editions first and consumers receiving retail versions sometime in January. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

where do you get your information? RTM is October. That is when they start pressing cds and make it available to computer manufaturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers. The general public can get it on new computers and on store shelves in January/February 2007. Get your information straight JUNIOR!!!!! Better yet go find Kevin and this new guy wandering around. "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

You are a memo behind. The rtm was moved to Q1 2007.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Official reports say they are on target for (release to manufacturering) in November, with Volume license customers receiving the Business and Enterprise Editions first and consumers receiving retail versions sometime in January. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

"Jim Fraas" wrote in message

I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

yea we will have to wait. i hope the prices for the OS will be reasonable for each version. "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

They'll be reasonable considering inflation in the last five years and the work that went into it.
And everybody will bitch about them, probably including me.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

yea we will have to wait. i hope the prices for the OS will be reasonable for each version. "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

My tenetive plans are to get Word 2007 and Vista Premium . I am budgeting $300 for rthe upgrade licenses.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

yea we will have to wait. i hope the prices for the OS will be reasonable for each version. "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

Agreed, although Mr. Ballmer did say it should be pretty much the same as current versions. Did you know that XP MCE is a premium version of Windows XP? If there was a retail version of the product, it would actually cost $350 - more than XP Professional. I find that strange, knowing that XP MCE 2005 does not include Domain Join and Group Policy features, not unless you upgrade from XP MCE 2002 or 2004. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

there are other ways to get those features in mce 2005 "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Agreed, although Mr. Ballmer did say it should be pretty much the same as current versions. Did you know that XP MCE is a premium version of Windows XP? If there was a retail version of the product, it would actually cost $350 - more than XP Professional. I find that strange, knowing that XP MCE 2005 does not include Domain Join and Group Policy features, not unless you upgrade from XP MCE 2002 or 2004. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message We'll have to wait and see :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

Care to explain? -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message

there are other ways to get those features in mce 2005 "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Agreed, although Mr. Ballmer did say it should be pretty much the same as current versions. Did you know that XP MCE is a premium version of Windows XP? If there was a retail version of the product, it would actually cost $350 - more than XP Professional. I find that strange, knowing that XP MCE 2005 does not include Domain Join and Group Policy features, not unless you upgrade from XP MCE 2002 or 2004. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message We'll have to wait and see :o)
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd

sure.
the oem installation that comes preinstalled when you get the pc will have some pro features disabled. i had to reimage my media center laptop once. since it shows as pro edition when it is installing it will give you the option to join domains and stuff. reimaging the pc comes at a cost though. you will loose a few oem stuff unless you know how to restore them from the installation CDs that came with your pc. i lost one of the oem games i think but i never liked it anyways. reimaging the pc also gives you the option of enabling extra features that you want and disabling features you don't want. like iTunes for example. iTunes comes preinstalled. if you try to uninstall it it will mess up other applications. when you reimage the pc it will give you the option of not installing it because the application restore CDs will let you pick what you want to install and what you do not want to install. there is also another way to enable those two missing features as well but i am not going into that yet. reimaging the pc also will enable the windows xp encrypt data feature, in which in my opinion is not worth it. there are also other pro features that can be enabled as well. its all in what options and stuff you choose when you are configuring the pc durring the install and stuff. there are also stuff in the add/remove windows commonents that you can change around to get what you want. but you should configure thst before installing updates for the os.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Care to explain? -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message there are other ways to get those features in mce 2005 "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Agreed, although Mr. Ballmer did say it should be pretty much the same as current versions. Did you know that XP MCE is a premium version of Windows XP? If there was a retail version of the product, it would actually cost $350 - more than XP Professional. I find that strange, knowing that XP MCE 2005 does not include Domain Join and Group Policy features, not unless you upgrade from XP MCE 2002 or 2004. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message We'll have to wait and see :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
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"Jim Fraas" wrote in message I could see $89 for Basic,$179 for Premium and $269 for Ultimate with an extra $100 if you do not have a current XP license.
"Steven Wabik" wrote in message when will vista be reasleased to the public and how much will it cost?

My bet is
$99 Vista Basic Upgrade $199 Vista Basic full Retail $199 Vista Premium Upgrade $299 Vista Premium Full Retail $299 Vista Ultimate Upgrade $399 Vista Ultimate Full Retail
$199 per year Vista Business $99 per year Vista Enterprise for more than some large number of seats and $199 for smaller numbers of seats.
Street prices will vary, but with the understanding that there will not be street prices for Vista Enterprise.
Todd