... that give good technicians a bad name. I have been doing Tech Support professionally for over 10 years and would not have had a single problem fixing that. The problem is that you pay for what you get. I charge $85.00 for computer support billed in 15 min increments but I am worth ever penny because it will take me 1/8 the time to fix an issue then someone from the Geek Squids. And time and time again when a customer of ours has gone to the Geek Squids they come bad and complain about how much more it costs them.
Actually cable already does something like an on demand internet, called On-Demand. The problem is that they keep you sandboxed in to only that content that they have. They have the technology in place to handle some of that.
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How is it that they can just sell you a license? If you buy the product in the store, retail box, how can that be just a license? No where on the box does it say you are purchasing a license. So is that not misleading adverstising. The box is the in store advertising, so when it says nothing about it being just a license for the software couldn't someone sue them for False Advertising?
... and people will find away to not have to pay that high price for something they want. Econ 101. Music is just another example of failing to heed the market. iTunes is a clear example of at least listen a bit. Make easy to be legal and make it so you only pay for what you want and people will flock to it. Make the product expensive or add and charge for stuff people don't want and people will either not but or find another way to get it.
The idea is very successful, but as a business no one every thought out the plan to make money from it. Ad revenue only generates enough income to handle the cost of doing business, if that.
While the average cost of a PC has gone down steadily since the first PC, the Microsoft Tax has (relative to inflation) stayed the same. Some would argue that they add new functionality to it with each new release and that justifies the price that doesn't wash. Motherboard manufactuers have added more and more functionality and the cost has still gone down.
$50 bucks difference is crap. Dell, I know has to pay more than that for Vista Home even with the volume discount. Sounds like Dell is just trying to play both ends against the middle and not anger M$ too much by pricing the Dells with Linux at the correct price.
Then again they may be factoring in the cost of higher support costs for supporting it.
Dude you are STUPID!!!
I have been a Vista Beta tester since the Longhorn CTP. You do not know what the hell you are talking about.
The people like you that do like Vista are the kind of people that check their email, blog, look at some web pages and make a word doc or two.
I have been using Windows since Windows 2.0, and I hate the hassles of Vista.
I just bought a new laptop (I buy a new one about every year, and a desktop or two) with Vista and Beta testing aside, I just hate to have to work on it everyday. So I downgraded to XP Pro. I do run Office 2007.
Also I know of hundreds of people that are very, very Tech savy that do not like Vista. Even turning off the UAC (User Account Control for newbies like you) still does not fix all the crap you have to deal with to just get stuff set up. I support and sell PCs and Servers everyday as my job and I always hate it now when I sell a new PC with Vista installed because it has caused me so many support headaches.
So until you become a experienced user that needs to do more than browse the web stop your STUPID statements about how nice Vista is!
Call the MS Key support and you can get a key to install XP on you new Vista. Call them!!! The more people that downgrade the more MS will figure out that people don't want to pay so much for Vista.
You are not always the most astute person, but are usually pretty insiteful. Keeps up the good work. Make the Stupid "I only read what they wrote for me to say" think a little or look dumb!!
The reason MS is going to sell software there at that price is because that is what the market will bare. In a country trying to get moving on the world stage now a days means being able to run computers for the least cost to your country's economy. When the software is a must have to run all the other software that you need for your country then you are going to have to get it one way or another. And when that software costs nearly a months worth of income for the average person in your country then that will hold your economy back unless you can get it cheaper. That is why the Chinese gov won't stop the priacy. They just can't afford to, i would bring their economic growth to a stand still.
But they are starting down the path that may make them less relevent. There are several companies that have done this and still are around and still profitable. Examples IBM, Xerox, {fill in your own here}. They have made and continue to make missteps but they have always found away around them. I am not a MS fan. I really wish that Windows would go bye-bye and be replaced by something better, Windows did. But I don't think that will make them disappear.
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Microsoft already does this.
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Sounds like Dell is just doing it half heartedly.
Then again they may be factoring in the cost of higher support costs for supporting it.
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Re: Vista
I have been a Vista Beta tester since the Longhorn CTP. You do not know what the hell you are talking about.
The people like you that do like Vista are the kind of people that check their email, blog, look at some web pages and make a word doc or two.
I have been using Windows since Windows 2.0, and I hate the hassles of Vista.
I just bought a new laptop (I buy a new one about every year, and a desktop or two) with Vista and Beta testing aside, I just hate to have to work on it everyday. So I downgraded to XP Pro. I do run Office 2007.
Also I know of hundreds of people that are very, very Tech savy that do not like Vista. Even turning off the UAC (User Account Control for newbies like you) still does not fix all the crap you have to deal with to just get stuff set up. I support and sell PCs and Servers everyday as my job and I always hate it now when I sell a new PC with Vista installed because it has caused me so many support headaches.
So until you become a experienced user that needs to do more than browse the web stop your STUPID statements about how nice Vista is!
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Re: You have downgrade rights.
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Kudos to you Mike
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Back to the subject of China.
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