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| Thread ID: 109642 | 2010-05-16 23:13:00 | NZs Reward for Low Piracy | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 885613 | 2010-05-17 03:56:00 | Where is our corporation MS guy N Mercer to reply to this rorting by MS.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 885614 | 2010-05-17 04:35:00 | I know I won't buy a lot of things. I think we got 2 free DVDs at the purchase of the DVD player :lol: rented the rest of them. Bought the odd game but only classic all time favs like Civilisation at a antique sale. Like broadband, it's so expensive I rather have dial up speed when I exceeded my cap and I prefer not to pay more than thirty bucks. Fortunate I use it mostly for browsing, seldom streaming. MS Office is one software that I bought and may get another if we have another PC - fortunately for their price. The Utlimate Steal package only have a 1 user license. If they were $400+ I simply would just do wthout it. Many people would simply pirate it. A family or student cannot afford nor want to spend $500+ or $1,000+ for a word processor / spreadsheet. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885615 | 2010-05-17 06:42:00 | Low Piracy? You never know where the sods will strike next. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 885616 | 2010-05-17 13:28:00 | I have no need for Microsoft Office so it doesn't worry me in the slightest :D | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 885617 | 2010-05-17 20:14:00 | Speaking of piracy (www.nzherald.co.nz) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 885618 | 2010-05-17 20:39:00 | Yes as a private person with a very small business I think that $800 to $1000 for a full office (with Publisher and Access) is a lot of money. You can buy a laptop for that ! All Office is now is a few tweaks on the previous version, so they have done most of the work. Also there should be readily available trade-ins / updates for owners of previous versions of Office (like me) But where do I go to get one ? And then there is the situation where a home / family has two or three machines in the house ! As regards piracy, yes it does not matter how much you earn or how cheap things are, if people can get them for nothing, they will. But they would not steal a car if someone offered one to them for $10 ! And getting back to PCTek's OP Why is Office so much dearer here in NZ than in the USA and the UK ? Greedy retailers or is it due to our low population ? For years I have said we need a higher population. I have just been talking to some people from overseas. Monterey in Mexico has 5 million million, Buenos Aires in Argentina has 12 million, Sao Paulo in Brazil has 20 million. If we had that kind of population here in NZ many things would be cheaper (and better) (more people/sales to spread your costs over and can buy in bulk) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 885619 | 2010-05-17 21:20:00 | Why is Office so much dearer here in NZ than in the USA and the UK ? Greedy retailers or is it due to our low population ? For years I have said we need a higher population. I have just been talking to some people from overseas. Monterey in Mexico has 5 million million, Buenos Aires in Argentina has 12 million, Sao Paulo in Brazil has 20 million. If we had that kind of population here in NZ many things would be cheaper (and better) (more people/sales to spread your costs over and can buy in bulk) Why can't we get the 60 trial disk or download and buy the cheap US licenses rather than the expensive NZ ones. Online licensing has nothing to do with small population bases and cost nothing extra... |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 885620 | 2010-05-17 21:29:00 | Go and live on a Wellington Rail Platform for 12 months and see if the anthill existence is so appealing. Large populations do not equate to the good life. The simple reason MS products are so expensive here is that the suckers will pay. It is no news at all that businesses prefer to sell at the highest price they can achieve, and so the gullible set the level. If people opted for one of the many available alternatives to the extent that MS lost significant market share the price would drop. They have a great deal of room to manoeuvre before causing any discomfort, but why should they? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 885621 | 2010-05-17 21:38:00 | True RX, they sell office in russia for $10 and they are still making a profit on that. Their excuse.... nobody can afforrd to pay $300 so $10 is better that nothing...WTF we are being ripped big time We have tried to use open office at our office here years ago (3-4) but it was a disaster because no one else we dealt with used it, there were compatibility issues all the time. |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 885622 | 2010-05-18 07:52:00 | These numbers get thrown out there , & no one challenges them, simply as they make better news stories unchallenged. In NZ, I doubt that 22% of MS products are still being pirated. Thats every 5th PC has pirated Office or Win. BS BS BS BS (from what I see coming into our workshop) 10 Years ago piracy WAS rampant, its harder now.(still possible to pirate for those really determined, but requires knowledge many dont have) Depends on their definition of pirated - we see enough computers with pirated MS Office, but it is far more common to find a business using academic software. I also see a lot of businesses running AVG free. |
Greven (91) | ||
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