Microsoft is charging now for their oldest innovations also. Buzz is fine. But Mr Gates must understand that the world is changing over. Mr Gates may have squeezed us, if there was no free software. Kerala govt is shifting from Windows to Linux in Schools.
Microsoft should lower the prices just as prices were reduced in cell phones.every one will be able to use good technolgies.so as the quantity of user increases microsoft will ern more and the advantage is their product will be absorb by the users rulling out the comoetition factor.
RE:Need to reduce prices Drastically !
by Kislay Sharma on Aug 03, 2007 02:22 PM
my iss seyin daat Microsaft iff is highng prise saftwere, then its are wonly becouuse off the mentinense off da saftwere. iss olsoo becouuse of cast onn davalapmint ins lyfe cical.
Microsoft is making a mistake in pricing its soft-ware high. Their XP Home edition costs about Rs.3000/-. Instead if MS has priced its software at say 1/10th of the current price there would have been millions of genuine MS soft-wares in India. Who would mind buing a genuine soft-ware for Rs.350-500.
RE:Pirated soft-ware of Micro-soft.
by VijayaKrishna Muniyangala on Aug 03, 2007 01:48 PM
Problem with pricing 350-500 is it will be exported from India to other countries where windows is priced Higher. Since India uses English version pricing should be comparable to other countries which speak english. You can find a cheaper version of chinese version.
a very well researched article. I am fully agree with it. But instead of using pirated copies of these softwares..Microsoft should consider lowering the price of their products for India and China. As these softwares are really not affordable by common people. But if MS go for the piracy part...then they'll actually help the piracy..and this illegal business. And though the tech life cycle is now flat i mean in mature stage, but there's more to come from MS..they'll rule the software industry in future also. They will invent new kind of CRAZY IDEAs...that will increase their market share in US also. Remember the GAMES FOR WINDOWS move? and their dominance over Sony in game console?.. For India and China they should lower the price drastically so that normal people can afford to purchase these softwares...and there are many who actually buy those original softwares if they price becomes lower.
RE:good one
by Sumeer Sharma on Aug 03, 2007 01:13 PM
The best strategy for Microsoft to adopt would be to allow free copying of the version immediately preceding the latest version. This way the piracy would become non-existent and a vast majority would be content with making do with a second best version.
What is described as 'marketing farsightedness' i.e.by allowing free operating systems and then charging higher prices for application products on that platform is nothing else but fooling people to 'get a free-ride now and pay for the views later'. The India and the Chinese markets are different in the sense that ours is a more evolved market while the Chinese are less and that is why they are gathering momentum. Would you as an individual or SME use the same strategy in IT security softwares like internet payment,banking,ticketing,school admission,birth and death registry(as and when the Govt increases IT spend) etc ? What the author has suggested will only put our journey out of the roads!