MS Vista to be available from MAKRO

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They are already advertising
Vista Home Basic (Upgrade) - R999
Vista Business (Upgrade) - R1999

They will also have Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) - no price yet

Spoke to a guy there - said they went on a workshop last week for Vista sales and he said they would only offer the above 3 versions. Availability from Thursday this week (31/1).

Office 2007 Std Upgrade - R1999
Office Home and Student 2007 - R 1,499.00
 
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I saw that PC Zone is selling it quite cheaply, cant recall the price offhand but its at the back of the SM supplement in the Sunday Times magazine.
 
my advice is not to buy an upgrade because if you dont like or your printers dont have drivers your screwed

much rather dual boot it and not upgrade
 
^^^ what he said

Upgrades might be cheaper, but is dodgy.

Best is to go the extra mile and buy the full copy - as the upgrade tend to ask for verification of an eligible product....
 
Beats me why anybody would still buy the boxed products. The Vista Business DSP edition sells for R1363 at Take2. Technically you have to buy a hardware product with this, like a mouse our USB cable etc. Obviously the general public is still left in the dark and out of pocket.
 
no you dont

you can just buy the software, if someone is telling you, you need to buy hardware then they just trying to make extra income
 
I see only the 32bit versions are currenty available from Take2.

If I have an AMD 64 3700+ processor, can I go for the 64bit version?
 
killadoob said:
no you dont

you can just buy the software, if someone is telling you, you need to buy hardware then they just trying to make extra income
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I have in the past tried to get hold of MS policy on DSP products but to no avail. Up to recently you could only buy the Office products with a complete new PC. Recently I had an argument with a salesman about this and then phoned MS again, finding out that you can just buy it straight off the rack on it's own. BTW, what the heck is the difference between a DSP and OEM product? And what in the world does DSP stand for?
 
yep hense why you dont have to buy hardware with

oem and dsp has no difference in terms of buying, you could buy oem software without hardware

i dunno why its called dsp now its the same thing

dude if you buy the 64 bit version you'll be very unhappy, as it stands their is not very good suport for vista in terms of drivers mostly for printers, but you'll never find printer driver for 64 version just like windows xp 64 bit

hp never brought out drivers for most of their printers on the 64 bit platform

besides nothing really uses 64 bit anyhow
 
DSP you can buy on its own. OEM you need to buy with qualifying hardware, usually a motherboard or full system.
 
not true

i can go into a shop and buy windows xp pro oem on its own i dont have to buy hardware

maybe microsoft want it this way but most pc shops will sell you windows xp on its own
 
I'm tempted to buy but I think i'll wait three months to get some feedback from the "early adopters"....

PS: Take2's site seem to be taking some strain...think alot of people are buying vista there at the moment...
 
killadoob said:
dude if you buy the 64 bit version you'll be very unhappy, as it stands their is not very good suport for vista in terms of drivers mostly for printers, but you'll never find printer driver for 64 version just like windows xp 64 bit

hp never brought out drivers for most of their printers on the 64 bit platform

besides nothing really uses 64 bit anyhow
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But what about a year or two from now? If I buy Vista now I want a version that will last me until the next Windows - and not sit with a version that's running out of gas.
 
DSP means "Delivery Service Partner". OEM means "Original Equipment Manufacturer" and normally would have the hardware manufacturer's name stamped on it. DSP software is similar to OEM software however there is no manufacturer's name stamped on the manual or printed on the license. DSP software is more generic and OEM software is sold directly to the computer manufacturer. Thus the distribution channel is different for DSP. DSP software is distributed for smaller system integrators and system builder hobbyists for "clone" or no-name computers. Like OEM versions, DSP versions often come with only an electronic help manual, which is built-in to the software or a small getting-started manual. The software itself contains the same programs as the Retail Box version, except the Retail Box version normally comes with a small printed manual. Both OEM and DSP Microsoft software include a COA, which is a Certificate Of Authenticity label or sticker from the manufacturer.
 
"OEM and DSP operating system software from Microsoft cannot be installed as an Upgrade, unless the old hard drive has been formatted or you are installing a new formatted hard drive"

Does anyone know whether the above is true ?
 
mitchmagi said:
"OEM and DSP operating system software from Microsoft cannot be installed as an Upgrade, unless the old hard drive has been formatted or you are installing a new formatted hard drive"

Does anyone know whether the above is true ?
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There usually are ways around it, IIRC in some older versions all it did was search for win.com so if you renamed that it regarded the drive as formatted, not sure what the equivalent is in Vista or if there is one. You won't be able to upgrade it and keep all ur settings etc though I don't think.
 
Methinks its still better to wait for at least SP2 before thinking about buying Vista, mind you, I wont just drop XP, its been quite a good OS for me and hasnt given me as much grief as I expected. Besides, I doubt if my coal burning comp would even run Vista anyway.
 
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