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Microsoft sees one price doesn't fit all | |
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| Time: 09:02 EST/14:02 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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The long-running legal battles between Microsoft Corp and governments in Europe and the US make the company look like a partner in a bad marriage, ready to walk out and call the divorce lawyer. But in Southeast Asia, the software giant seems more like an ardent suitor, wooing governments with sweet promises and gifts -- such as unprecedented bargain prices on its Windows operating system. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.173.227) at 6/9/2004 4:14:23 PM |
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As long as MS can maximize profit they will. In 1997 an MS rep handed out Office 97 Professional CD's to a number of OEM's at a training session. No activation code was required. I suspect that MS’s employees handed out thousands of the CD's around the country at training sessions. Most were likely installed on multiple PC’s. Clever and often subtle marketing was done until Office was on 90% of desktop PC's. Word Perfect and Lotus were no longer a force. Now we all have to pay and can install the newer version on only two or three PC’s. MS established MS Office as the dominant product and is taking advantage of their hard fought position. Word Perfect, Lotus and others could have given their programs away also. They didn’t.
Don't think for a minute that after Windows and Office finally are on 90% of these foreign PC's that the Far East third world PC users won't be asked to pay higher prices when they want to upgrade. |
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