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According to the article below, your next OS and Office upgrade from Microsoft will set you back almost $700. Granted, it's the "Ultimate" version, meaning it's bundled with a bunch of extra crap (that you don't want or need)...

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4463/53/

What is Microsoft thinking?? Windows Vista Ultimate edition is going to be geared towards us power users and techy geeks. What Microsoft didn't take into account is that free Operating Systems are starting to get a lot better. Distributions like Ubuntu are making it very easy to switch from Windows to Linux. Completely. For free.

This entire website is ran with free code, thanks to Ubuntu and the rest of the Open Source movement.

The fact that Microsoft hasn't released a new Desktop Operating System in more than 5 years should be enough to make you think twice about upgrading.

Remember when you upgraded from Windows 95 to 98?