Good points.

CH


"Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie******.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:50:54 -0000, HastaLavista <nomail@nomail.ru> wrote:
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>> All those that are now crying "piracy" - msft should have done better
>> and release rtm to all folks, not only for "choosen stuff" aka
>> enterprise,msdn etc.
>> What's wrong to offer a pay per download. Not everone has needs for
>> physical media and shiny retail boxes at all .
>> And rethink the price-policy for vista than I am sure, there would not
>> be this problem at all or in fact, not so much as it is by now.
>>
>> Take realistic 50 USD per HomeEdition Basic and all would be ok.
>>
>> prices and release policies as by now will make vista and cracks the
>> most downlaoded files in the world. Realistic.
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> I would agree with this part, if Microsoft does want to seriously combat
> piracy, sell direct without shiny boxes and pressed media and fat-cat
> middlemen, pass ALL the savings onto the consumer.
>
> Nobody wants to fight WGA, if Vista direct-download was priced realisticly
> so MS made a reasonable price, and the tech savvy consumer saved a wedge,
> they would simply buy it, and not bother with the risk and hassle of dodgy
> cracks..
>
> This has been my major gripe with MS, Vista is highly priced, but MS get a
> pittance for it, as 4 levels of distributuion have to cream off the
> profits... Sell direct.. Combat piracy...[/color]