Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a "closing down" sale. "Full" prices are set laughably high only to make you think you"re getting an amazing discount, because no-one pays the marked price. All stock has been slashed, save $$$, why pay more?
The latest from Sultan Bill"s House of Software is that anyone running any pre-release version of Vista code -- from the creaky Beta 2 to the slicker Release Candidate builds and assorted Customer Preview Program (CPP) editions -- is eligible for upgrade pricing on the full version of Vista.
It"s the silver lining on the cloud for anyone still using pre-release code, which was made widely available during the long run-up to last year"s launch of the uber-OS but stamped with a use-by date of May 31st, 2007.