If these prices are true, then it looks like Vista will cost as much as a computer does. We all knew Vista wasn’t going to be cheap, but $1K for an operating system? Here are the rumored retail prices:
Windows Vista Home Basic
200€ or 255.55$ or 135.95£
Windows Vista Home Premium
400€ or 511.10$ or 271.90£
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
500€ or 638.88$ or 339.87£
Windows Vista Business
650€ or 830.54$ or 441.84£
Windows Vista Enterprise
800€ or 1,022.20$ or 543.80£
Everyone is saying that these prices are very unlikely because the Ultimate Edition is supposed to be the most expensive version.
The retail prices for XP are already high and now we are looking at some versions that cost 2 to 3 times more that Windows XP Professional does? Boy would that push hackers to get a crack out within hours of Vista’s release 
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News Source: MSBlog
Oh dear, it seems M$ are going the Sony route – not only are they adding extreme amounts of anti piracy crap, but they’re charging a lot of money for the privilege of owning a restricted system. I do hope the hackers get a nice crack done, because it’d be nice to use the latest system, but I’d have to sell my PC to afford it
On that note, do you know if there are any permenant workarounds for this Windows Genuine Advantage nonsense?
“Sell my PC to afford it”
I got a good laugh from that!
-Ryan
I may have to turn to prostitution to pay for it…:)