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For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move from an earlier copy of Vista. The suggested price for Vista Ultimate drops to $219 from $299, while Home Premium falls to $129, from $159.

Microsoft chops Vista retail prices

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The Vista SP1 benchmarking silliness keeps getting, well, sillier…
MS commissioned a company to run and report on: Responsiveness of Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP on common home / office tasks
Immediately it was picked up by several places as news.

The results are in — XP trumps Vista in benchmark tests
How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured. (The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not primarily what we’re concerned with here.)

Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Windows XP is faster than the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in completing common consumer and business tasks on PCs coming out of sleep mode, according to tests commissioned by Microsoft Corp.

Report: Vista on par with XP performance; SP1 is fasterIn any event, if you download the above linked reports (the first two are new while the next two are from last year), you’ll discover, surprise surprise, that “overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP performed comparably on most test operations [but] Windows Vista SP1 was notably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common home operations.” This was true for both common home and business tasks.
Gentlemen, start your complaining.

First you’ll notice the articles seem to have completely different spins on the same info. (XP faster, XP a little faster, XP not faster)
Second, this study was PAYED FOR BY MICROSOFT.

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AnandTech has a great review of Vista SP1. A few interesting Quotes:
[Read more…] about A Second Shot: Windows Vista SP1