Depending on which news articles you read, Microsoft is going to lower the pricing on their Vista operating system between 20% to 40% or more. One source in silicon valley states the cuts will be as high as 48% on some products. The versions which will feel the cuts are Home Premium and Ultimate. Only the retail packing will be reduced in pricing.

What is surprising about the price cuts is that they coincided with the release of the secret memo’s in the Vista Capable fiasco. One could conclude that Microsoft is trying to soften the blow of the assumptions being made that the company knew in advance Vista was problematic upon release.

Or we could also conclude that retail sales needed a jump start since many consumers have been reluctant to upgrade to the new operating system. Then again maybe Microsoft has felt the rath of conusmers who have stated that Vista pricing was to expensive.

What ever the reasoning, the reduction in price may just stimulate consumers to purchase the product. No date has been set when the price cuts would kick in.

Or is it to little to late?

What do you think. Comments welcome.

[tags]microsoft, vista, pricing, cuts, home premium, ultimate,  [/tags]