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Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price

Posted by kdawson on from the but-wait-you-also-get dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the UK, a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is going to cost less than half the price Americans will have to pay, and in fact less than Americans have to pay just for the upgrade-only edition. Full details and prices were published in an article on CNet, in which it was concluded that, at least for the time being, Microsoft is honoring the prices it set for the now-discontinued European version of Win7, which did not contain Internet Explorer 8 and was only available as a full-install edition."

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  1. Price gouging ... by pbhj · · Score: 5, Informative

    MS, like many American companies, are fleecing the country.

    GB prices for tech are usually close to the same number of pounds as dollars things have eased a bit recently, here are two random examples:
    * New Apple iPod Touch 8GB 2nd Generation (amazon UK), £152 = $250
    * ditto (amazon US), $215 -> UK one is only 16% more

    * Dell M17X laptop (UK), £1699 = $2815
    * ditto (US), $1799 -> saving $1000 by purchasing in the US vs in the UK where it is 56% more expensive

    Last year it was about $2 = £1; http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=GBPUSD

    You were saying ...? This would make it even more extraordinary for Win 7 to be cheaper here, but when I look ...

    * Win 7 ultimate (amazon UK), £170 = $280
    * ditto (amazon US), $220 -> so only $60 / 27% more and the UK price is a "discounted" one from an RRP (recommended price) of £230

    Um?