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- From: (dmatiske)
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- Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.224054.2869@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 22:40:54 GMT
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- In article <D2150035.cl3t9c@outpost.SF-Bay.org>, peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org
- (Michael Peirce) wrote:
- >
- >
- > > Don't forget that the current estimated suggested retail on Win/NT is a few
- > > hundred dollars on top of the cost of this minimal configuration. This is
- > > definitely not going to be a low-end product. Even with site licensing (what
- > > little that Microsoft offers), it's going to cost a fortune for a company to
- > > buy copies for everyone, so they'll start with just a few initially. Like
- > > you say, it'll take a few years to get going.
- >
- > You really never really know about prices until ship day. I wouldn't
- > be surprised if Microsoft has learned a lesson or two about pricing
- > and volume from selling Windows 2.
- >
- > As long as there is some profit in it, you *can* make up for a cheap
- > price with volume.
- >
- >
- > There is a large installed base that will never go to Windows NT,
- > but then, there is a large installed base that will never even go to Windows
- > as it is today. The big battle ground is what people use on new machines
- > (Apple keeps this simple by not supporting System 6 on many of their new
- > machines, Microsoft can't quite do that :-)
- >
- > -- Michael Peirce -- peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org
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- One good thing about Windows NT is that it is going to sell a lot of
- CD-ROMS :)
- YOu can buy it currently for $70 bucks in it's prebeta form. IF it is
- stable and does offers good multitasking and protection I can see it
- gaining a large part of the bussiness market. The major compliants aobu
- the poor program manager(finder eq) can be remided by third party
- applications.
- Of course it might take a couple of years to get a stable release. A
-