From: Gary Britt 

Actually its plain math as regards exchange rates.  The problem is I didn't
comment on exchange rates.  I commented on the extraneous anti-American
euro-trash snobbery contained in the article writer's irrelevant and off
point gratuitous comments about the dollar.  So again we'll just have to
disagree as a discussion of exchange rate mechanics is irrelevant to my
point and the gratuitous anti-American euro-trash snobbery of the idiot
writer who can't figure out how to put a shortcut for control panel on the
desktop.

Gary

Adam > wrote:
> 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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