I was just reading about the Vista upgrade matrix on Ars. You know, it actually makes sense. There’s really no point in offering upgrade pricing to pre-Windows 2000 users since well, there’s no point in them upgrading.

1. They’ll have to clean install anyway.
2. Their machine will perform so poorly with Vista that the upgrade costs alone will equal that of a new PC.
3. It’s probably about time they get a new PC preloaded with Vista anyway.

Really it’s a big deal for all those OEM’s that will now be getting loads of new PC purchases. Would imagine they’ll even be getting some from XP users that bought those ~$500 PC’s two or three years ago that figure it’ll be another $500 to upgrade to a good Vista experience. So they might as well buy another ~$500 Vista machine.

Now just to convince both my parents to just sit and wait so that they don’t waste more money replacing their dying PC’s.

Tags: Microsoft, Vista