The real cost of a Vista upgrade

By Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia
01 November 2006 03:24 PM
Tags: vista, windows, upgrade, microsoft, in brief, home

in brief Microsoft Australia has revealed the business edition of its next operating system, Windows Vista, will cost AU$565.

The software giant also issued local upgrade prices following the release of packaged pricing early last month.

Retail upgrade pricing (RRP) for the several Vista editions will be:

  • Home Basic Upgrade: AU$199
  • Home Premium Upgrade Academic: AU$179
  • Ultimate Upgrade: AU$495
  • Business Upgrade: AU$379

Vista ultimate edition includes both business and home features of the operating system.

Talkback 3 comments

    Tell em .... Andrew Smith -- 01/11/06

    Tell them they're dreaming! Who on earth would pay that much to upgrade to Vista? $379 for a business professional upgrade???

    It's not as if it will improve my typing speed (very respectable already, thank you) and I've had long filenames since Win 95.

    about Vista... Bob S. -- 07/05/07

    it's worth mentioning that you'll likely need to roughly double your installed memory to achieve performance parity with XP... I'd call that a cost... innit?

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