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People are buying Vista on Ebay for $88

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When I finally got around to putting some old parts on ebay I almost didn't even bother with some copies of Vista. To my shock the first one just sold on ebay for almost $90.

Are these becoming collectors items or do some folks _really_ not want to upgrade in 2013?

Vista rocks?

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People that had Vista on their previous computer and had recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8, and found out that it sucks?

I clicked on this thread thinking "Surely they aren't talking about Windows Vista, there must be some desirable product with the same name..."

Well, I'd rather have people using Vista and XP. I don't see what's wrong with Windows 7 though if you don't like Windows 8's interface. (Even though there's a few cheap paid and free tools to make it behave pretty much exactly like Windows 7 if you don't want to embrace change).

"Embrace change" and "turn my computer into an Xbox" are two different things.

Aside from a different start menu, Windows 8 is nothing but Windows 7 with some more fat trimmed. On the desktop, you can't easily tell them apart. Why would you describe it in such extreme terms?

It's the new direction Microsoft's taking with their interface formerly known as Metro design theme. The "tiles" concept works well on touch devices, but is a complete failure on large-screen computers with a keyboard and mouse.

I'm aware you can turn it off, but if you're disabling their flagship feature, why even bother upgrading to Windows 8 at all? It's expensive for anyone in Windows 7 with very, very little benefit.

A lot of people buy a lot of crap on ebay for outrageous prices. Might be Microsoft trying to prop up the market!

Like $50 gift certificates sold for $80.

Gift certificates make sense. The buyers are people without credit cards that want to shop at those stores. They can get money into a PayPal account to buy things on eBay, but those stores don't take PayPal.

Probably someone who can't use 7 due to missing driver support.

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