From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> We'll just have to disagree as to both of your replies below.
>

huh? It's plain economics.....

"Apparently, Bill's minders had neglected to prep him for that
question, because if he understood even the basic principles behind
currency exchange rates, he would have known that the "drift"
would make Vista cheaper in Europe. The American $380 stand-alone Vista
Ultimate package would retail here for  292 plus VAT, not  600 with
VAT."


Do the numbers.

imagine 1 usd = 1 euro.

as such 1 copy of vista would be E380

OK so far?

Now the USD is on the slide so let's make the numbers easier & say now
2 USD = 1 Euro

so now a copy of vista should = 380/2 euro i.e. E190

instead it's nearly doubled to E600 i.e. USD1200

Adam

> Gary
>
> Adam > wrote:
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> You are correct.  I must have been thinking of Win2K or Win98.  I must
>>> have created my XP control panel shortcut the old fashioned way by going
>>> to control.exe and right clicking and telling it send shortcut to
>>> desktop.  The create shortcut option is available if you right click on
>>> the control panel icon in "My Computer" which would
work also.  Either
>>> of those two ways work reliably every time, and you identified a third
>>> way.  So again the guys an idiot.
>>>
>>> The parts you quoted in his message wasn't the anti-USA euro-trash
>>> snobbery.  It was the part about USA currency sliding to 3rd World
>>> bannana republic levels that was the Euro-Trash snobbery.  A totally
>>> gratuitous and irrelevant to his article side remark.
>>>
>>
>> Nope it was accurate. If a good is priced at USD4 & it's 1 USD to the
>> UKL then it's 4 UKL. If the USD slides to 2 then it's 2UKL.
>>
>> As it is the opposite has happened where are USD4 good is priced by MS
>> at UKL8 which equates to USD16 when the currency slips.
>>
>>> The high cost of high tech in Europe is related no doubt to the economic
>>> policies that make Europe made high tech so expensive and importers of
>>> low cost USA goods have no reason not to price their goods in line with
>>> the local market conditions established by the inefficient European high
>>> tax socialist welfare economic models.
>>>
>>
>> Nah that's bullsh*t. They just think they can get away with it & no US
>> state attorney types such as Spitzer in NY who might take them to court
>> for ripping off the consumer.
>>
>> Personally I think it's just (A) Typical MS arrogance "take or leave it
>> where we think you've got to take it" & (B) Marvelous coz then even
>> fewer will upgrade to Vista & will consider their alternatives.
>>
>> Adam

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