clipped from: blogs.computerworld.com In the United States, Microsoft will make price cuts that are largely symbolic gestures. It will cut the price of the full retail version of Vista Ultimate from $399 to $319, and the retail upgrade from $259 to $219. It also reduced the Vista Home Premium upgrade from $159 to $129. The cuts will be effective with the release of Vista SP1, apparently, or when Amazon.com posts a promotional sale, whichever comes first.
What are the chances the cuts will set off a stampede of PC users who've just been waiting for Vista prices to hit the magic number? Slim to none, actually. Nobody's been waiting.
Value pricing is a much easier argument to make with Apple's OS X. Today I can buy the ″family pack″ retail upgrade of Leopard from Amazon.com for $171.49 and install it on up to five computers. That's $34.30 a copy.