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> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Microsoft And The $1,632 Copy Of Vista
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>>| Microsoft charged Bill $1,632 for a single Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade
>>| license. Each time Bill, an IT Manager, tried to his enter his payment
>>| details through Windows Live Marketplace he was told that Microsoft could
>>| not be contacted, and to "please try again later." What Microsoft really
>>| meant was, "Ha! Got your money! How 'bout some more?!"
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http://consumerist.com/tag/windows/?i=5010868&t=microsoft-and-the-1632-copy-of-vista
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> No wonder Microsoft counts a 140 million copies sold!
They double-dip and bundle. Maybe they can count those 30-day trials of MSO07
as 'sales' too, eh? Never mind if people are forced to get (and remove) that
rubbish after buying just pure hardware.
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