On Feb 11, 9:37 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Microsoft does not like Europeans?
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> | Many people started complaining that $399 would be expensive,
> | especially with very easy to work Linux distributions being
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | shipped for free (like Ubuntu) or OSX gaining market share
> | with the Apple's Macbooks (with Intel Core Duo CPUs). I would
> | honestly believe that they would do what most American/European
> | companies always do, $399 would transform here in Euro399 (even
> | though Euro1 has been around $1.3 for a while), but it would
> | not cross my mind to even imagine that here, in Europe, you
> | are getting the same package with prices that go from
> | Euro550 to more than Euro669!
> `----
>
Same problem in New Zealand, they charge what they think they can get
away with. The 'shrink wrap' market is probably their most lucrative
and would be perceived as a captive market in general (individuals and
SME's who need to interact with outfits who get their copies cheap on
bulk deals).
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