Microsoft discounting heavily to keep market share
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| As reported on the MoneyforJam blog, Microsoft is heavily discounting Windows
| to keep market share in the face of cheaper Linux offerings.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9798881-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
It was the same story in Thailand some years ago. They try to suck money using
the extortion that is Vista, but it doesn't sell, so they preinstall for
almost no profit.
Rekated:
Windows Vista at $1
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| So How is piracy so open in China? Is china having an AntiPiracy
| law? Read out this article from San Francisco Chronicle on China's
| take on Piracy.
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http://blog.techiezone.in/2007/05/10/windows-vista-at-1/
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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