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Microsoft is planning to cut the price of Vista sold at retail outlets.
They haven’t specified a date for the cuts, but they say that it will affect copies sold in 70 different countries.

A typical price cut for Vista Ultimate (the top-end version) in the USA will be in the region of $80, bringing it down to $319 - a reduction of 20%.

The cuts apply to the retail versions of Vista - bought by people upgrading exisiting operating systems. This accounts for about 10% of Microsoft’s OS sales - the remaining 90% being installed on new PCs.

Microsoft has now sold over 100 million Vista licences, and they are aiming to boost the number of customers who upgrade.

Editor’s Opinion:
Reports show that Vista is not all it’s cracked up to be, and there has been a marked number of new PC buyers insisting that they are installed with XP.
The main problem seems to be performance of Vista. I’ve heard it described as “wading through treacle”, with some applications taking several minutes rather than seconds to load.

The money you save from these price cuts will be used up by the extra RAM you’ll need. To get better-than-XP performance, you’re going to need at least 4Gb of RAM.

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