RSSDiscount brings street price of Windows Home Server down to $100
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published November 5, 2008, 10:59 AM
After a price reduction over the weekend for the shrink-wrapped System Builder Edition of Windows Home Server, at least one online retailer extended that discount to customers, while others sell out their inventories at 62% higher.
The OEM editions of Microsoft operating systems and applications are typically sold without the fancy box, and with licenses that stipulate their use in pre-installation for computers that are to be resold, but that stipulation has historically never been enforced. Almost a decade ago, the OSR2 bundle of Windows 98 -- what many at the time called the most stable edition of that system, even though it wasn't really a separate build -- ended up being sold in retail establishments such as Egghead and CompUSA.
Now, a similar plain-wrapped version of Windows Home Server -- the simplified version of Windows Server devised for homes with multiple computers -- could see a similar uptick in adoption. After price cuts for the OEM edition that were supposed to go into effect November 1, Newegg.com is offering WHS with Power Pack 1 for $99.99, plus free shipping. Not long ago, the product's MSRP was $239.99.
But even an announcement issued over the weekend touted that Amazon.com would be offering similar discounts, a check by BetaNews this morning shows Amazon still selling the OEM edition for $190.96. And although online retailer ZipZoomFly.com had apparently, according to Google's caches, been offering the product for $99.99 as well, this morning it's listed at $161.99.
And while Buy.com was said to have joined the discount party, this morning that retailer lists the product as unavailable.
Microsoft's announcement also stated that the discount reflected a 30% price drop, while at the same time citing the price difference from a street price of $160 to about $100. Many news services ran with that announcement without first checking the math.
That is a good price from Newegg, and free shipping too? :)
Chuck
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|Is this the same Home Server that is still corrupting files? Or has that 'small problem' actually been fixed after umpteen numbers of attempts?
One wonders how they could sell that at any price!
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|I think there was one single attempt at fixing it (however pathetically long it took) that achieved that purpose in the first round some time earlier this year. WHS is (besides this difficult to forgive issue) actually a nice product and the new price seems fair.
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|I was thinking there were two major attempts, the last one being a month or two ago...
If they can get the bugs worked out (for certain!), then I agree, a useful product for a reasonable price.
I might add, one might be even further served by leveraging this with VMWare and using a Panos Logic $300 terminal/client instead of managing several desktops for home or SoHo use.
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|Amazing how many of us seem to have been able to run this WHS thing for well on a year (more?) now without a single issue.
...wonder what the rest of you are doing wrong.
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|It was fixed back in March technically, but not made official until July.
http://www.bit-tech.net/...home-server-bug-fixed/1
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|and MS as well, as they were the one to issue the fix...
or was that simply imaginary too?
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|Riiiight.
*laughing*
Of course it's a problem, genius. It's simply not one that affects the majority of users. You seem to be trying to make it a much larger issue than it actually is. (Imagine my shock...)
You just can't admit the problem was blown out of proportion. Well, hell...of course not. It's become your mantra. Every thread even remotely tied to WHS has you popping in to pretend it's this big huge problem....that no-one but you seems to be complaining about.
Ah Gods...forget it. like anything I or anyone else says will ever get you to stop trolling MSFT. Talk about pointless....
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|So its only a crisis for those whose data is corrupted.
Nevermind, you're right of course, its NOT a problem. And the fix should have been imaginary...or maybe it was simply an additional marketing ploy by those devious marketeers at MS.
Gee, but it only affected 10%, no 7%, no 17% no 6%....
And how many laptop batteries have spontaneously combusted? Hardly any - not a problem. And how many folks had to wait an hour (oh my!) to have their iPhone activated? - not a problem. And the list goes on.
But thanks for you telling us what is and what is not a problem. The fact is, most things on this site and in the news(sic) in general are not a crisis as they are so often presented to be - just focused attention at the expense of probability run amuck.
But thanks for showing up and announcing that THIS particular issue is not of concern to other users because it failed to affect YOU!
But then below I stated that it could be an asset assuming the bug - mentioned several times in articles in this forum - was fixed. Sorry for confusing you. Too many choices for you again...
So remember folks, according to Tool you only need be concerned if something affects the MAJORITY of users.
That rules out sunamis, earthquakes, HIV, famine, drought, genocide, influenza, ...and the list goes on.
Let us know when a real crisis hits - but then, you needn't as the majority of us will already be aware of it.
LOL!
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|It only corrupted data when using certain programs which were not used by the majority.
So this is why it wasn't a huge deal
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|Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Intuit QuickBooks aren't used anymore?
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|That's it. You *are* frigging retarded.
Need proof?
Nevermind, you're right of course, its NOT a problem.
The second sentence in your reply to my comment where my *first* sentence was:
Of course it's a problem, genius.
FFS, if you're going to continue to make s*** up and argue with what you decide to *pretend* what others have said, go to slashdot.
We're done here.
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|I said the MAJORITY
M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y
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|http://support.microsoft...946676/en-us?spid=12624
List of Confirmed Applications
• Windows Vista Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Money 2007
• SyncToy 2.0 Beta
• Intuit QuickBooks
• uTorrent
User Reported Applications
(Now that Power Pack 1 is out, it is unlikely that Microsoft will update this list.)
• Photoshop Elements
• Zune Software
• Apple iTunes
• TagScanner
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Adobe Lightroom
• Intuit Quicken
• MS Digital Image Library
• MP3BookHelper
• ACDSee
• WinAmp
• Windows Media Player 11
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Visual DataFlex
Now, what are the chances that a WHS customer uses one of the above listed applications?
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|Microsoft's announcement also stated that the discount reflected a 30% price drop, while at the same time citing the price difference from a street price of $160 to about $100. Many news services ran with that announcement without first checking the math.
Yeah, you guys would never do anything like that... ;)
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|Maybe they contracted the press release out to AG? Then again last she was was seen skating in the Sahara (A: j/k...)
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|Nah...
If it was Angela, there would be an obscure movie/music reference and a clever quip or two (not at the expense of the quality of the article).
Highly enjoyable stuff. They need to clone her.
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