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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Prices Unsustainable, New Business Models Sought

alt wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:45:47 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> And you can be sure that once they have the market "sewn up" that the
> price will go from $3.00 to $300.00.
> 
> 
> 
Too true, that! At the present price, the M$ boxed sets are selling for
about the value of a middle class Chinese person's salary for one week.

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