Strewth!!! Microsoft to lower prices for Win7.
 

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/ne...7-os-versions/

Perhaps they really are listening to customers after all.:eek:

I think its because the Credit Crunch, people are putting upgrading the Operating Systems the bottom of the to do list.

They need to make the price low to even get a reasonable amount of sales :)

So its, Windows 7 Home Premium will be available in the US for $199.99.

In the UK it will be ?199.99 so the make more from ripping off the brits :mad:

blatent rip off that.
Nearly double the price in the UK

Maybe Internet Brands bought Microsoft...

lol

Microsoft will not be offering an upgrade version of Windows 7 in Europe.

In the past Microsoft has given people already using Windows a chance to upgrade to a new version when it becomes available.

While that option will be offered in the US, Microsoft said its efforts to comply with competition regulations meant it could not do so in Europe.

European regulators dismissed the claim, saying the move limited choices rather than opening them up.

No choice

Windows 7 is due to go on sale on 22 October around the world.

Anyone outside Europe buying a new PC between now and then - running Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate - will get the chance to upgrade the operating system on it, at no cost, to Windows 7.

While Microsoft will not charge for the upgrade, some PC makers may impose a fee to ship disks with Windows 7 on them to customers.

The worldwide upgrade option programme is due to begin on 26 June

I never found out which one it was, but one international company once described Britain as 'treasure island'.

Rapscallion

Aparently Volvo the car makers were fined $40 Million years ago for price fixing in the Uk,

Even Norton Antivirus, If you Buy the softwaqre online it pays to Download it from the States and pay in Dollars, Almost half price, than compared to UK prices :eek:

you should`nt be using Norton Virus as its bloatware and bad for your computer.

The EU screwed Microsoft over by not letting them include IE in Windows. So Microsoft is just saying a big "f*ck you" to Europe. It sucks that the people have to pay for it...

Well, that's how I see it anyway. :p