Re: Dear Microsoft
- From: "Draggonfodder" <commojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:44:52 -0400
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John Nagle
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I suppose you would like to buy a Cadillac for $1,000 also. What if
development costs of exceeded $29.95?
I imagine it does. The Cadillac has developement cost and manufacturing
costs. MS only has developement costs. Manufacturing costs them pennies.
29.95 was the low end and most would buy the higher end machines. I live in
an adult community (55+) and it costs 100 - 200 for someone to come in and
re-install software that fails. Some can't affort it and do without. I
help those folks. We have a lot of fixed income induviduals that rely on
their computers to keep in touch with the kids/grandkids. Not asking for a
handout, just think MS would do better being a Walmart than a Cadillac
dealer.
Cheers
"Draggonfodder" <commojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Excuse me for top posting .. I appreciate all the thoughts concerning my
post. I didn't say they should not protect their intellectual property,
just find a more graceful way of doing things. 29.95 is a price that
most people would spend without a second thought. Gamers would spend
59.95 in the same manner. I upgraded my hard drive a while back on my XP
box. When I reinstalled (what a mess) I installed XP pro, then SP1, then
several updates, then SP2 then several updates then SP3. It was not a
smooth process and 6 hours. later, I could use my machine. For 39.95, I
would have bought the latest and installed it, instead of doing the
update dance. I have put linux on a few machines but they have their
unique issues also. It really scares me every time there is a power
outage. I am afraid that MS may decide that my software is too old and
they won't activate it. Sounds silly, but my MS office crashed and when
I reinstalled it, they really gave me a hard time before they would
activate. I really hate asking permission to do things.
Regards
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John Nagle
"RJK" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your suggested prices are too high !
I would suggest 9.95 | 10.95 | 12.95 for Home, Premium and Ultimate,
respectively ! :-)
...as for MS's security measures, I have to disagree, there would no
"Windows" without them, - it would all have been completely destroyed by
theft, and we'd all have LINUX ....bwaaahahahaha <ROFL> !
...and hoping I'm not speaking too soon, I've never had any problems in
almost three decades - with OEM EULA's, and never had to go pleading to
my regional MS office here in the UK, over activation.
For example, during the past couple couple of days, I had to "pretty
up" an old SktA system box, to replace a "bodged-up" "heap of urbbish
system box - that had been sold for FAR too much money to a quite decent
chap, (who would simply not do something like that himself - to anyone
else, like what was done to him - over that sale!), ...and his XP Home
SP1 went in, and activated, and fully updated OK :-)
(...there are so many RIP-OFF artists out there, flogging ancient PC
system boxes to the "unaware," I'm pretty sure we need a law against
it).
regards, Richard
"Draggonfodder" <commojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think you have overthought all your problems and have come to the
assuption that your customers are bad people. So you have all these
security measures implemented that do nothing but screw up your
operating system and alienate your customers. People aren't stealling
your operating system, they are trying to get the cost down to a level
so they can afford it. Most buy the software then try to put it on more
than one machine to justify the cost. You have so many security
measures in place that if you just replace your video card or upgrade
your memory, you have to ask permission from microsoft or they shut down
your computer. Thanks big brother. My solution is simple. Reduce the
price of the operating system. You might think you would lose money but
even you know that isn't true. Say, 29.95 for home edition, 39.95 for
home priemium, 59.95 for ultimate etc. I believe you would be surprised
at how this will help your image and reduce your activation costs. You
may want to keep your activation system in place for places like China
but your average American doesn't want to do anything illegal. I have
some machines that still run your older systems (win98, ME) and would
probably upgrade to XP or vista if the cost wasn't outrageous. Just
something to think about.
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I know that I am spitting into the wind. But hey, just wanted to get
that off my chest.
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