I was surfing looking for a barebones system for a group of teens I mentor, when I stumbled upon Vista Ultimate being offered for $199.99. I haven’t kept tabs on Vista pricing lately so the price seemed below what Microsoft had originally reduced the operating system to, after the orinal and ridiculous price of $399 for the full version. So I did some more checking and found even cheaper versions were available.

Over at Newegg they were selling the system builder version of Vista Ultimate for $169.99. But hold on. Over at TrustPrice they had a copy of Vista upgrade for $120 which indicated it was a student discount. Interesting.

So how low can one go? Well if you are a student in California attending a community college you can get a copy of Vista Business upgrade for $45.00 + CA. tax. Check out the Foundation of California Community Colleges for details.

So how low can you go?

Comments welcome.

Newegg

TrustPrice