Angry UK users query Vista price
p2pnet.net news:- Angry actual and would-be British users of Microsoft Vista are wondering why they have to pay so much more than their American counterparts.
Why, demands an online petition launched by Paul Milne and signed by 2,416 people by 8:40 am PST, is there such a huge difference?
Says the petition:
As an example of this, in the UK a full copy of Vista Ultimate would cost you £350 (today, about $687), in the US it would cost you £195 (today, about $382).
The US version of Vista is exactly the same as the UK version. There is no difference. Therefore I can see no reason for there to be such a huge difference in prices between the UK and the US other than Microsofts belief that the UK customers will pay more than their US counterparts.
I ask people to sign this petition in the hope that the Prime Minister will bring pressure to bear on Microsoft over their pricing as it is my belief they are simply overcharging the people of the UK and therefore are ripping us off.
Stay tuned.
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February 26th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Microsoft is probably trying to recover money that it lost in all of the antitrust litigation in that part of the world. It may be in effect punishing people in that area for daring to stand up to its bullying tactics. If this is the case, then Microsoft is cutting its own throat.
Rather than petitioning Microsoft to bring down its prices, it would be better to petition the UK government to mandate that all government used software be compatible with Linux and other operating systems. Another thing to petition UK government for is to stop Microsoft from penalizing vendors who publish and support Linux drivers. The best way to defeat price gouging is by having a free market that allows competition.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:52 am
UK Morons:
You limey British scum deserve higher prices from our great American monopoly Microsoft. The UK has loved the openly socialist Tony Blair for many years. I understand you are scanning, fingerprinting, and spying on school children every day in your sick nation. You British scum should have never been saved from Hitler by us Americans. You are a nation of British socialist scum. May you enjoy the tyranny of 1984 (written by a BBC reporter). Britain is a socialist nation, and you are no longer welcomed in the USA.
Dick Helms
Langley, VA, USA
P.S. I’m so happy to know the Founding Fathers kicked the British out of this country 225 years ago.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Very funny. Dick Helms died 5 years ago.