Microsoft Selling New Windows At Cut-Rate Price

13 Oct, 2004 at 2:28pm ET Article published in Tech

Despite all the changes Microsoft is touting with the new version of Media Center, the biggest change may be one that the company barely mentions: the price drop.

Microsoft had priced the first two versions of Windows XP Media Center edition, targeted at consumers, higher than even its professional edition of Windows sold to businesses. This time, Microsoft has priced the software somewhere between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro, CNET News.com has learned. “There is a deliberate strategy to lower the price,” said Tom Laemmel, a product manager in the Windows Client unit. “We want this to be taken seriously as a mainstream product. It is clearly the best OS for any room in the home.”

Source: c|net

Comments

13 Oct 2004 ~ 3:56pm Sputnik isn't Windows MCE Windows XP Pro with some stuff on top? or is it Windows XP Home with stuff on top?
13 Oct 2004 ~ 4:01pm primesuspect It's based on home core.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 11:15pm Sputnik oh... in that case, why wasn't it priced between the two in the first place?
13 Oct 2004 ~ 11:47pm GnomeWizardd would it be worth it to pick a copy up?
14 Oct 2004 ~ 4:15pm RWB What is this Media Center Edition? I haven't seen it before appearently, I've been under this rock here minding my own buisness I guess
16 Oct 2004 ~ 8:58pm yagga I thought you couldn't buy it unless you bought it preinstalled? Maybe I'm under the rock, too?
16 Oct 2004 ~ 9:13pm Thrax Media Center Edition is basically Windows designed to function in the capacity of a PVR.
16 Oct 2004 ~ 9:46pm GnomeWizardd pvr?
16 Oct 2004 ~ 10:06pm Thrax Personal Video Recorder. TiVo.