scott wrote:
>> OTOH, M$'s products aren't exactly "cheap", by any stretch of the 
>> imagination.
> 
> I don't think paying 2x-3x the price of a game for your OS and Office 
> suite is expensive, and I guess most other people don't either.

I've yet to meet anybody who thinks MS's prices are reasonable. (OTOH, 
everybody wants things to be cheaper, so I guess that's not saying a lot.)

>> I think what most people really object to is paying vast sums of money 
>> for a product that isn't actually all that good. Let's face if, when 
>> you run KLogic and it crashes for the 18th time, you think to yourself 
>> "oh well, it least it didn't cost me anything". If you paid £400 for a 
>> piece of software and it behaved the same way, you'd be pretty upset.
> 
> Agreed, but my Windows or Office doesn't crash 18 times, and I didn't 
> pay 400 pounds for it :-)

Windows itself usually doesn't crash much if at all, provided you're 
careful with it. But Office? I've seen it crash more than 18 times per 
day. :-P

Also...

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123456

M$ Office 2007, full package, £350.

Pretty close, considering I guessed the number off the top of my head. I 
see Vista is currently selling for £180 or so.

If you think that's "cheap", then good for you. To me, that seems 
seriously steep. Hell, the super-dupa-ultra-mega edition of Nero only 
costs £40 or so, and everybody complains about how over-priced that is.

> However we did pay 10 thousand pounds for some CAD software, and that 
> crashes occasionally (which is infinitly more often than the OS!).

OK, that's pretty lame. I'd ask why you don't go use a better package 
instead, but I suspect the answer is going to be some combination of

- There aren't any better products to choose from.
- Our clients use this product and we need to be compatible.
- We've bought it now so we can't get our money back anyway.

If I paid that amount of money for something that didn't work right, I'd 
be *pissed*! o_O

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