With a report about to be released from NDP group noting a sharp decrease in Vista sales I think Ballmer should pull a Jobs and induce a price cut.

Don’t get me wrong - I love Vista. But for the $200 OEM version with the ability to only install on a single machine I don’t want to buy it. I’d pay that much for the volume license edition with which I can install multiple times on multiple machines.

In many instances it’s about the same price to buy a new computer with Vista on it than to buy the retail boxed version of the operating system.

So, Ballmer - If you want to sell more retail versions of your OS you will either have to lower the price or give a little when it comes to licensing. Or you can sit back and watch Dell sell PCs with Ubuntu on it for the same price as your operating system.

Jobs did it, why can’t you?

Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs