Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)<alansli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue >>> hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary >>> OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. >>> >> If you pay £219.99 you've been conned. >> >> Sean >> >> > > Yep. But if you pay *anything* you've been conned ;-) > > That is the retail price for the "professional" edition and after the > "until December" promotion ends. And as there is no upgrade package from > XP that is what most mortals will be expected to stump up. > > Al > > > That is what was worrying me about having to upgrade, I only have XP on all my machines, so I will have to pay that out twice. Wont be doing that for a while. I think by the Time Windows 7 comes in proper and they stop the support for XP, I will be using only Ubuntu on all my machines.
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