Microsoft Sells Windows for Just $5 Sometimes
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| schestowitz Jan 10, 2009 10:27 AM EDT |
According to this new audiocast [OGG] from Dave Rosenberg, Matt Asay, and an unnamed guest, Microsoft is allegedly giving Windows for just $5 to be put on sub-notebooks where/if they are assembled in China http://opensources.com/podcast/OpenSources_Episode4.ogg |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2009 2:27 PM EDT |
looking for the punchline. OK I give, other than your persistent 'everything MS is evil', whats your point? *p.s. no links to your own writting to prove your point* |
| herzeleid Jan 10, 2009 3:31 PM EDT |
Isn't that normally called dumping? and isn't it well, sort of frowned upon? |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2009 3:53 PM EDT |
if charging 5 bucks for an OS is dumping, whats up with that rascally Linux OS? |
| herzeleid Jan 10, 2009 5:03 PM EDT |
Let's say a company normally sells a product at a certain price, but fearing loss of a monopoly, the company dumps the product at a fraction of the normal price into a certain market to prevent entry of competitors into that market. That is the situation we have here. The price of linux has nothing to do with microsoft and is irrelevant to the discusson. |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2009 5:17 PM EDT |
and how is the price of one OS not relevant to the price of it's competitors when one is making noise about pricing? c'mon, keep the knees stable and start with some logic. If they are trying to gain traction into a market that has a less expensive OS then of course they will have to lower their price to be competitive. Regardless their price reduction still leaves their product 500x more expensive than it's competitor, Linux. |
| gus3 Jan 10, 2009 5:37 PM EDT |
Figuring the percentage price increase over Linux should result in a Division by Zero Error. If not, you need something newer (or older) than a Pentium. |
| herzeleid Jan 10, 2009 7:21 PM EDT |
> and how is the price of one OS not relevant to the price of it's competitors when one is making noise about pricing? You're missing the whole point - don't be so hung up on the "peaches are free so it doesn't matter if they dump apples" sort of thinking. If it will help you understand the argument, just price out a supported linux distro, and think it through again. |
| jdixon Jan 10, 2009 7:33 PM EDT |
> Isn't that normally called dumping? and isn't it well, sort of frowned upon? By competing companies and countries, yes. It's also possible that it's against various WTO regulations, though I'm not certain of that. However, Microsoft has no effective competition. that's why they're considered a monopoly. |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2009 8:59 PM EDT |
@herz I have the argument down fine, and you have yours, we arent however discussing the same thing, unless of course your going to prop up the 4 freedoms straw man. |
| Scott_Ruecker Jan 10, 2009 9:07 PM EDT |
If I can't buy XP but it can be installed on a computer and it only costs $5. Its dumping. The only reason Microsoft brought XP back from the dead is because Vista can't fit on anything less than an 80gig HD. |
| gus3 Jan 10, 2009 9:26 PM EDT |
...not to mention the other resources it hogs. Also, check out the current XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/528/ |
| Scott_Ruecker Jan 10, 2009 9:39 PM EDT |
Too Funny!! LOL!! |
| Steven_Rosenber Jan 11, 2009 2:02 AM EDT |
Two things: Unless I'm woefully mistaken, aren't just about all laptops, netbook or otherwise, made in China? Any good will I might've had for XP has all but evaporated during the past few weeks of actually having to use it. |
| schestowitz Jan 11, 2009 5:34 PM EDT |
Yes, and they are being dumped Windows upon them. |
| ColonelPanik Jan 11, 2009 6:25 PM EDT |
winders for export. |
| tracyanne Jan 11, 2009 6:48 PM EDT |
I'm in the process, probably most of today, of doing rolling system reboots... I'm installing software on a Windows machine |
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