On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:38:29 -0600, HeyBub wrote:


user wrote:
HeyBub wrote:


They could, but they don't. If you can point to one single monopoly
that HAS raised prices in a captive market, I'd be surprised (except
for professional sports and government-sanction monopolies like
utilities).

Microsoft, and with Vista

You're right. Even considering inflation, Vista costs more than Windows 95.
But with the greater productivity of Vista, users make more money and,
hence, can pay more. The additional cost is still a lower percentage of
their disposable income than was Win95.

Vista hasn't greater productivity. Quite the opposite actually as vista
users will spend most of their time staring at the hourglass whereas a
windows 95 user could get some usefull work done with a pentium I.

Unless, of course, you supply Vista with at least 6 ghz of processor, 4GB
of ram, etc.