To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Windows XP Pro is $200. The latest version of Mac Tiger is $89. There is something very greedy in MS's pricing policy.
12 posted on
06/13/2006 12:00:36 PM PDT by
John Lenin
(The RAT party is still Stuck on Stupid)
To: John Lenin
Microsoft has bloated into one gigantic and inefficient bureaucracy where very little actual work is done. I personally know people who work there saying that.
$299 for win xp professional ? Give me a f*** break !
To: John Lenin
Windows XP Pro is $200. The latest version of Mac Tiger is $89. There is something very greedy in MS's pricing policy.P>What do you suppose MAC Tiger would cost if MAC had the lion's share of the market and Microsoft had the share that MAC currently has?
17 posted on
06/13/2006 12:12:39 PM PDT by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: John Lenin
Remember Microsoft is a monopoly. It just means that you HAVE to pay that price if you are dealing with the real world of business.
Despite the enthusiasm of the nich offices, windows is for all intents and purposes the only game in town.
Competing operating systems could be free or they could pay you to use them, you would still have to buy the microsoft product to make the specialty software work with zero chance of emulator compatability problems. IOW the price difference is irrelevant.
32 posted on
06/13/2006 12:34:40 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: John Lenin
Windows XP Pro is $200. The latest version of Mac Tiger is $89. There is something very greedy in MS's pricing policy. If Apple didn't require you to run Tiger on it's overpriced proprietary hardware, I assure you it wouldn't be $69.
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