Re: Europe Discriminated in Vista Pricing

[Robert Newson <ReapNewsB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ Robert Newson ] on Thursday 25 January 2007 13:04 \__
>
> > schavemetitz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Microsoft Discriminates Europe
> > >
> > > ,----[ Quote ]
> > > | Are you thinking about buying Vista Ultimate? Think again! In the
> > > | US the price for it is $380, and in Europe the price is around to
> > > | 575 Euros ($744). And again Microsoft Corporation is discriminating
> > > | the European people, and pushing them to acquire their operation
> > > | systems from illegal sources.
> > Ah, but that extra price is because of all the localisation that is
> > required in Europe, eg in France all the messages have to be in French
> > (what's the Canadian price again?), in the UK the messages have to be in
> > /English/ (like Favo/u/rites , Colo/u/r, Network Neighbo/u/rhood, etc)...

And cent/re/.

> It's also the shipping costs.

Must be: I mean *ALL* the security that must surround the "Golden Disk" with 
the EUropean copy on it to prevent it being stolen and copied (dare I say 
pirated?)  Besides, there are obviously more pirates (arrggghhhh, Jim Lad) 
in Europe and so to recoup all the loses that the high price has caused byu 
people preferring to pirate as opposed to go legit, it need to be high in 
price...

No...what am I talking about - that's a load of rubbish - it's the high 
import duty that the British government (sic) puts on electrical and 
computer goods from the US...