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Originally Posted by pawoSD
They do with OEM pricing and licensing, especially for businesses. With both Win7 and now with Win8, there was/is a very lucrative and low cost upgrade price available for a number of months. I believe its around $39, which is very reasonable....even if you choose to not actually install it right away.
Often the costs of hanging onto older systems will come back to haunt eventually, in the form of higher costs to painfully transition much later than if it had been properly managed and done steadily all along.
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IMHO, the BEST software pricing system was back in the days of Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC) with their VMS operating system and family of applications. They sold the Media and Documentation separately from the licensing and had bundled pricing for the licenses. VMS and DEC, however, started dying in the early nineties.