January 5, 2007

Limited Ultimate Vista Upgrade Edition with Bill Gates signature adfeed-products — by TDavid @ 9:44 am PST

Better hurry if interested in this one — shipping only available in the US — Amazon is selling 20,000 copies of the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Signature Edition [DVD] (affiliate) for $259. This includes Bill Gates signature (digitized, of course) on the front numbered box.

Since Gates will be stepping down from his full time position at Microsoft in 2008 and there won’t be another Windows version before then this likely will become a collector’s item. Then again, Gates isn’t completely leaving the company, so he could always do the same thing on the next version of Windows. Any guesses when that will be? 2010? 2015?

As of writing this item was ranked #117 in Software. If the 20,000 copies are all gone, you can order the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE [DVD] (affiliate).

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1. Yeah, the geek that I am I had to order one. They’ve been available since before New Year’s.

   Fred

   Comment by Fred Beiderbecke — January 5, 2007 @ 10:00 am PST

2. I’m surprised they are still available, Fred. I was thinking of buying one (still am), but then wouldn’t want to open the box, so it would be an extra 259 bones + tax to either sit on a shelf or be used as a contest prize or gift. If Amazon took PayPal I’d have pulled the trigger before posting this.

   Comment by TDavid — January 5, 2007 @ 10:19 am PST

3. […] If you’re interested, you can pre-order an upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate signed by Bill Gates himself. It’s extremely limited, with Big Bill signing only 20,000 copies, and as TDavid notes, it is likely the last operating system Gates will be involved in and thus autograph. […]

   Pingback by » Windows Vista RC1 Media Center Time-Bombs »  InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel — January 5, 2007 @ 11:40 am PST

4. Ick. I’d rather spend the $259 on something worthwhile. Like MacOSX. For $199 you can get a 5-user pack. :p

   Comment by darkmoon — January 5, 2007 @ 1:05 pm PST

5. darkmoon: But Apple will come out with 10 new $199 incremental versions of OS X you’ll spend $2000 on before the next version of Windows.

   Comment by Dan Grossman — January 6, 2007 @ 2:59 pm PST

6. At least those incremental versions actually have features I can use and aren’t delayed for about four years. And not to mention it’s more innovative. It’s interesting that you see something that MacOSX does at MacWorld, and then.. lo and behold, Windows team says… “oh.. we got that too..” and releases something similar six months later as a feature of Vista.

   Vista in itself doesn’t have any of the features that it was “supposed” to come with that made it special. WinFS? Where? Huh? I mean, I suppose Readyboost is okay, but there really isn’t a reason that you need that much ram to run the OS unless you’re seriously terrible at optimizing. Beryl and Compiz show that all the eye candy can be done for minimal easily. Even MacOSX does it well on the current specs but go figure. It’s based on a BSD derivative.

   The $259 for Vista with Bill Gates sig? Hell, I’d probably rather give that $259 to charity. And an upgrade version no less. ick.

   Comment by darkmoon — January 7, 2007 @ 11:54 am PST

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