Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft in China
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>| 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?
> `----
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> 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.
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