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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 Upgrade Cost
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Date: 24 May 90 21:50:28 GMT
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In article <1990May23.210551.28822@cs.umn.edu> gardiner@cs.umn.edu (David Gardiner) writes:
>The upgrade cost for Windows 3.0 is
>
>$50 + tax + $5.50 shipping.

You may be able to save a few dollars (and a few weeks of waiting) by 
talking to your local software emporium.  Egghead is offering to do the
upgrade for $50 plus tax and the title page from your existing Windows 
manual; since Microsoft has started collecting sales tax from so many
states this saves you the extra shipping-and-handling price.

Also, the ground rules are supposed to allow users of *any* flavor of
Windows to upgrade for the $50 price tag.  (This is the Microsoft position;
I don't know if Egghead or others will support it.)  This includes not
only older versions of Windows, but any of the run-time versions as 
well.  There won't be a  run-time version of 3.0.

Totally irrelevent to the current subject but I'll put it here anyway:
if you try the solitaire game and lay out a hand which can be completed,
go ahead and complete it at least once rather than just realizing that
a win is assured.  Someone at Microsoft (Wes Cherry?) must have had
fun writing the display you get when the last card is stacked on the 
top row...