Interesting Vista pricing in Canada

[Ian D]

At Best Buy and Future Shop, (owned by Best Buy), Vista
Home Premium Upgrade is on sale for $50 off, at $130 CDN,
and Vista Ultimate Upgrade is on for $100 off, at $200 CDN.
The interesting thing is that this sale is on until March 31/08.

At Best Buy US, both packages are on for $60 off, but only
until January 30th.

With the size of the discounts and length of the sale in
Canada, it sort of looks like Microsoft is trying to reduce
inventory of the upgrade packages.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Sure. Vista SP1 is about to release and the retailers are going to refresh
their stock with new copies that have SP1 integrated.

 

[norm]

At Best Buy and Future Shop, (owned by Best Buy), Vista
Home Premium Upgrade is on sale for $50 off, at $130 CDN,
and Vista Ultimate Upgrade is on for $100 off, at $200 CDN.
The interesting thing is that this sale is on until March 31/08.

At Best Buy US, both packages are on for $60 off, but only
until January 30th.

With the size of the discounts and length of the sale in
Canada, it sort of looks like Microsoft is trying to reduce
inventory of the upgrade packages.

I just ordered vista home basic online from j&r for $49.95 (+ $6.95
shipping). Don't need it for anything in particular, but for that price,
I will just keep it on hand.

 

[peter]

God....if your aiming to use Vista Basic you might as well stick with XP..
See if you can cancel that and at least get Vista Premium
peter

 

[Ian D]

I just ordered vista home basic online from j&r for $49.95 (+ $6.95
shipping). Don't need it for anything in particular, but for that price, I
will just keep it on hand.

Especially good, since, if you don't mind reinstalling every four
months, you can use it as Ultimate.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Sure. Vista SP1 is about to release and the retailers are going to
refresh their stock with new copies that have SP1 integrated.

This is what slipstreaming is for, if the SP1 packages are overpriced.

-pk

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Traditional slipstreaming is not used with Vista. Integration will require
other techniques.