____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 18 July 2007 20:01 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
> <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:45:47 +0100
> <b341n4-r79.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Microsoft in China
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| So perhaps a question that might be worth asking is if Windows and Office
>>>| only costs $3 in China, how sustainable are it's prices in other markets?
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/microsoft_in_ch.html
>>
>> This is about simple business economics. If you can get US$3.00 for a
>> copy of windows in China, it's more than you get for a copy of Linux, or
>> an illegitimate copy of Windows.
>>
>> The real question is how long before it's recognised that Linux, free,
>> is better than $3.00 for Windows.
>>
>
> It may depend on what the users want to do with that $3.00
> copy of Windows, and what applications they want to install
> thereon (no, anti-malware and other such don't quite count).
>
> I wish I had a good answer. Apart from IE7 and some issues
> with Evolution interrelating with our calendar program and
> OpenOffice opening .msg files, I've had quite good success
> with running those few Windows apps I need to run (IE6,
> because of a brain-damaged cookie-munging bug tracker;
> VSS because we've not seen the wisdom of switching to CVS
> or Subversion yet, at the corporate level).
>
> But clearly I can't speak for everyone in China. :-)
> (I'm not even *in* China.)
$3 Windows+Office is a muchly-cripped version that is only available to student
(i.e. people who must get addicted A.S.A.P.). It won't do more than 3 tasks at
a time, unless something has been changed since this edition was last
introduced. Just to clarify... just in case...
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