Comments on: A Look At the Upcoming OS Family Packs From Apple and Microsoft

By: omron blood monitor

omron blood monitor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:28 +0000

A grueling technological brawl between Steve Jobs Apple Computer, Inc. and Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation has been steadily evolving for around 30 years. And with an almost constant tech-like arms race that showed no breaks or stops, one would think exhaustion would set in. Instead, the already brewing tension recently prompted hot business waters to boil over with the introduction of Apples clever and hip “PC vs. Mac” television adverts that specifically focus on demonizing and poking fun at Microsofts products.

When you opt for a Mac rather than a PC, youre buying a computer with a better design on the inside as well as out.

By: James

James — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:54:14 +0000

According to my calculations, the equivalent to the Mac box set for Windows costs about $2,100.

Breakdown:
5x Windows 7 Ultimate full at $320 = $1600
5x Microsoft Office Home and Student at $99 = $495

Total = $2,095… Ouch!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:58:56 +0000

I don’t get what your problem is. Apple are charging more to upgrade from Tiger than to upgrade from Leopard. Is this fair? Yes! It would be grossly unfair to those that did upgrade to see Tiger users get the Snow Leopard upgrade at the same price point. If you didn’t upgrade to Leopard, why should you get the benefit?

By: James Dempsey

James Dempsey — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:38:25 +0000

Something I **think** should be noted. That $149 price for the Windows 7 Family Pack is an UPGRADE price, not a full license price. So you’ve already got to have XP or Vista installed in order to use it.

I realize that it wasn’t implied in this article that the $149 was for a full license, but I’ve actually seen several Windows users virtual-vomitting in forums about how much cheaper Windows 7 was than Mac OS X. Maybe they failed their math classes – most likely due to lack of paying attention in class because they were too busy fixing BSODs on their computer.

By: jagdterrier

jagdterrier — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:56 +0000

Why would “families” need Professional or Enterprise features that are available in Ultimate. Home Premium is aimed at the demo. Continuously asking why MS doesn’t slash prices doesn’t make sense seeing that they’re a $60 billion company based primarily on selling software to different markets at difference price points. They mint money no matter what.

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By: FiZ

FiZ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:57:48 +0000

The typical upgrade situation is that you pay to upgrade from the previous version of the software, not two versions behind. I honestly wouldn’t expect a company to offer such an upgrade plan in most cases. (I’d make an exception for XP -> 7 as Vista was The Beast that Should Have Never Been)

By: theD

theD — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:43 +0000

Sey Hee Park
“GRANTED, the box sets do include iLife and iWork, a great deal in the end. But nonetheless, I don’t think Apple’s entirely immune or should be exaltingly vaulted in their “cheap upgrade” campaign, as you guys would like to put it.”

You just said it yourself! There are 3 products: Tiger, iLife, and iWork for the upgrade. Tiger being the bridge. So you don’t think they have a right to charge for the other products!? How is this still not worth the price?

By: Dave Bissett

Dave Bissett — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:40:25 +0000

Amazon has the 5 pack snow leopard for $49, if you want a single license its a mere $29, so I dont know what “Sey He Park” listed above is complaining about.

Sure if you want to buy the equivalent of windows 7 and office in macs offerings you could get both for $169 or a 5 pack for $229, again thats cheap and the mac offering blows away what Microsoft offers by way of garageband imovie, iweb, iwork and pages.

With windows I was always more vulnerable to attacks, the office apps always had swiss cheese holes that left my data vulnerable. If you have a mac and cant afford or dont want to update the office component, ie spreadsheet word processor etc, simply put in neo office or open office, two fairly good free offerings.

But as for value Apple has clearly got Microsloth beat.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/18/windows7_security_hole/

http://apcmag.com/windows-7-flaws-start-to-show.htm

yup was spending thousands of dollars trying to keep my XP connected to the web and not getting hacked, bought the best of firewalls etc and the problems still persisted, till I bought a cheap mac mini which blew the doors off my more expensive PC and I have never looked back.