__/ [ ed ] on Friday 22 September 2006 22:48 \__
> On 22 Sep 2006 21:40:11 GMT
> Peter Hayes <not_in_use@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In <20060922222238.78f0c767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ed wrote:
>> >
>> > Has this been brought up before?
>> >
>> > If one in four people buy a copy of windows vista this is the amount
>> >
>> > of money that goes directly from the UK to the USA:
>> >
>> > UK Population 60,209,500 (Wikipedia)
>> > Vista 399 (USD)
>> > USD-GBP 0.53
>> > GBP 210.64
>> > Price after (-VAT) 32,615,802,345.40
>>
>> I doubt if one in a thousand will buy Vista retail, one in ten
>> thousand even.
>
> Well, companies *HAVE* to buy it, perhaps through OEM, but you get the
> point right?
So Microsoft gets the dough while Brits get the pleasure of purging viruses?
Sounds cheeky...
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