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>> 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.)
>
> No. You know *lots* of people who think it's reasonable. You've also met
> lots of people who would rather pay less.
>
> Everyone at your office who actually bought Microsoft products thinks
> the price was reasonable.
Everyone at my office who bought Microsoft products bought them with
their PC. :-P
Most people are shocked and dissapointed when I tell them how much the
software costs by itself.
>> 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
>
> Aren't you running the one that's like ten years old? Office 97 or
> something?
We were using Office 97. (And, unsurprisingly, when I was at uni 10
years ago, we were using a 10-year-old Office, yes.) Now we're using
Office 2003 at work. It still glitches, but the people who use it have
gradually figured out tricks to get round it.
>> M$ Office 2007, full package, £350.
>
> If you buy it one-off, it's pretty expensive. But given that you're
> buying something like 8 programs, it's not all that bad. And it does a
> lot more than Nero does. If you really need a business contact manager,
> then a half-day's pay for software that handles all your business
> presentation needs isn't that bad.
>
>> If you think that's "cheap", then good for you.
>
> It is for a professional.
>
>> To me, that seems seriously steep.
>
> You're not a professional.
The trouble with this argument is, the so-called "home" version doesn't
have half the stuff in it that home users want. I got caught out with
this. Some guy wanted to edit a PowerPoint presentation for a local
gathering, so I bought him a copy of Office Home, and... guess what?
This "office" is actually just Word and Excell. That's a hell of a lot
of money just for a buggy wordprocessor and a reasonable spreadsheet.
(I had expected that the home version would just leave out the high-end
stuff like InfoPath that home users won't need. THAT would have made
sense. But no, apparently not...)
>> Hell, the super-dupa-ultra-mega edition of Nero only costs £40 or so,
>> and everybody complains about how over-priced that is.
>
> Except, you know, the people who are professionals at producing CDs,
> perhaps.
I'm pretty sure professionals wouldn't buy a consumer-oriented product
such as Nero. (The premium edition takes over your entire PC in an
almost viral fashion...)
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