What price for Windows?
Geoff Gasior at The Tech Report has an article up where he explains why he thinks Microsoft doesn’t charge too much for Windows. He has some good points, and some bad, but most importantly doesn’t even touch on the biggest issue (in my mind). I can’t afford Windows right now, and (as far as I know) have never been able to afford Windows. Ok, maybe Windows 98 or ME, but 98 sucked (and they charged for the patch to make it not suck), and I could never get ME to install correctly on my computer. Windows 200 and Windows XP were both priced waaay outside what I could afford, even with student prices (since CU didn’t have one of those super cushy deals that made everything dirt cheap).
I’ve graduated, but I’m having a hell of a time finding a job right now, so it doesn’t look like MS is gonna get any Windows money from me anytime soon.
Anyways, I think the price of Windows is absurd. I know it was expensive to make, but as a student whose trying to build a set of skills for the marketplace but can’t afford the OS everyone will expect him to know I’m not going to be paying MSRP anytime soon.