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Microsoft Cuts Vista Price To $66 In China
narramissic writes "Microsoft this week cut the retail price of Windows Vista Home Basic in China by 67% — from 1,521 renminbi to 499 renminbi ($65.80). This is a steep discount compared to what users in the US and elsewhere are charged for the software. The reason for the price reduction? Battling piracy, of course. The new pricing 'narrows the price gap between original versions of Microsoft's software and pirated copies,' making it that much easier for consumers to 'do the right thing.'"
What, so they can run it on their $199 PCs?
The piracy of one is a tragedy. The piracy of millions is a discount.
But the distro only contains free and open-source pirates. We can't have any of this proprietary pirate bull crap.
Don't you mean Ulimate and not Ultimate?
Vista Ethylene Glycol Edition
Hello ... RIAA ... you catching this?
Maybe the money saved isn't enough for vista basic users to learn Chinese?
Just a thought.
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hey maybe thats why chinese became so popular in the firefly future...
that's why i pirate linux.
Are we sending Windows to China in retaliation for the lead-paint and poisonous pet food that China is shipping to us?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
"my plans about how I was gonna use Vista"
Hopefully these plans included a large pile of very dry wood, some gasoline, and a shaman head-dress?
which is totally what she said
Arise system! System arise!
Ice Cream has no bones.