Screw the
limited edition signed collector's Vista plate set with matching flatware and signed Bill Gates lithograph, China's already rocking it black market style with
Vista knocks on the shelves in two CD sets. The software, which is already purchasable for the low, low price of about $2.50, is thought to be the Frankenbuild version or some other hack of beta code to get around the activation process. Either way, it's unlikely to be going anywhere but home with Chinese consumers. Which kind of begs the question: even though
dumping is generally frowned upon, at what point will Microsoft cut its losses and just sell the software for less cash in markets where the median income is proportionately grossly less than that that of its country of origin?
P.S. -Props to the box designer that left the trademark symbols next to Microsoft and Vista; we tip our hats to your sense of irony.
posted January 21st 2007 6:48PM
I totally agree that if it wasn't for pirated Windows, MS wouldn't have the dominance it has today.
Having Windows on every computer is what made every devs to license technology from MS, and impulsed the standard in computing. The main problem is that the current price for Vista is so huge that doesn't worth it. And don't come sayin' that you can always change your PC and have it installed, cause no one is offering Ultimate bundled. Also I like to open the guts of my PCs and change HDD's, videocards, etc. all around and NEVER buy a brandname PC.
Will this version update my bootleg XP?
this is what Microsoft gets for turning a blind eye to the atrocities being committed in china, then taking part by using them for cheap labor and "tech support, like india. google and yahoo are next I'm sure.
Just thought I would add that its actually selling for $1.20, many people have been installing it, I have been in an internet cafe that is already using it.
Thus we have Linux. Hopefully Linux will catch on in the rest of the world and keep Vista to the US only.
i think lets not forget all we use in the modern world in daily life is made in china , so i'am not surprised by vista actually being cracked maybe microsoft themselves launched the bugged software to be cracked and hanged in few months so that everyonewill buy it, more over in time chinese can be our only source of affordable software i would not be surprised if in future it is called microsoft cn .