“Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista.
Acer claims that the Vista Home Basic – the new entry-level Windows – is so poorly featured that consumers will simply reject it. “The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won’t feel it at all,” said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president at Acer. “There’s no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no remote control.”
Wong claims that Microsoft’s own marketing machine has undermined Vista Home Basic. “Right at the beginning they started talking about the experience of [Vista Home] Premium. Premium is the real Vista,” he said.
Furthermore, Wong claims that the manufacturer’s licence for Vista Home Premium is 10% more expensive than for XP
Home. “We have to pay more but users are not going to pay more,” Wong said. As a result, he claims the total cost of building a PC has risen by 1-2%, which is a significant increase in such a low-margin business. Read the full story on PCPro.Co.Uk
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