Windows 7 upgrade campaign savings limited for enterprises

MS again display a lack of understanding of the real world. They should be paying the people who have had to suffer using Vista to upgrade, not charging them at least another $120+. Any enterprises that have gone to Vista, well hopefully you've learned an important lesson. This definitely adds one more tick to the Mac pros column. But don't think that people moving to Apple upsets MS that much, they'll probably still need to buy MS Office for Mac and don't MS still have a big stake, i.e. $'s, in Apple ? The one thing to remember is that Win7 IS NOT a new OS, it's just a 'fixed' version of Vista, needing even higher spec. hardware. Putting 4GB of mem in my HP notebook seems to have fixed Vista's daily BSOD and sudden reboots. If you must have MS, want bells and whistles, don't mind being second guessed as to how something should be done, crashes/daily reboots, programs hanging (especially MS apps!), and the list goes on; then Vista/Win7 is for you. If you need an MS OS that will run reliably and doesn't try to impress you with flash gimmics, and just works; then good old solid XP - get it while you can !

I have seen too many small business people making the wrong choice in OS because they don't know or can figure out what they need when it come to Vista . I have seen companies buy cheap systems only to spend tons on upgrading them hardware and OS and now with companies income going south and good IT people being laid off in the thousands they think someone going to have the knowhow to take advantage of program that would cover only maybe a third of some companies systems? I noted that a good amount of small companies don't get the costly Vista business edition as they don't want to have to budget for it. It seems they will look for system that they can get at a low cost and no matter how many time you tell them you want all system running the same OS they mix the systems. Now on a larger company where cost is not or I should say when money was not a matter they got what ever it took to get the job done but now we have many people gone and cost dose matter they found as spending to win was not the answer and now the less money and people to run their IT and the companies. SO MS thinks that cutting the price to upgrade will work.. ya good luck on that. I can see Joe Public garbing this up in hope of getting better deal after vista confused the heck out them. It took me month to get my client on track with Vista some have spent more on manuals for Vista than on the OS and computer and paid me to make sense to the chaos that is Vista. Now win 7 (Vista Lite)hits and we still have thing I do not like and I won't go into it right now and MS think a gimmick like free or very little cost will bring people back.. I think we will see a very small businesses jump over and mostly the small business people that do understand the need to stay current in the tech in their business. I think we will see more people wanting XP running their business than Vita or win 7. I am still testing networking and shared system and Vista worked better than Win 7 I mean you turn drive sharing you should be able to see that drive and move file..not in 7 it very complex and the normal everyday user will not find it easy and this is where MS is going to fail. I still do not like there is 5 or 6 or eve 7 version of the OS as the did with Vista I think the need to go back to XP type model 2 version with some ad-on's for Business. this upgrade should be free and let those in a business upgrade to the Win 7 the need not the same version they have I.E. they are run a version of Vista Home but need business then let them upgrade to Win Business it would be a better and over all win win as their business get better(questionable in my mind) but they feel they can do more then it would be better for MS to eat the cost Heck MS need to eat the cost of lot of this BS with Vista and the coming cost of win 7 I feel will happen. GC