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Julian Hall wrote: > Had the versions been announced with a *top* price of around £150 for > Ultimate I think many more people would have felt inclined to buy them. > M$ could have scored very well as the reduced price would have been more > than offset by the increased sales. As it is M$ have created another > self imposed banana skin. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > I agree, although saying that we're yet to see what might happen with the home version. I mean with Office 2007 the home version can be used on 3 PCs (for home use only), possibly Microsoft might do this with Windows 7. I've since read that if you pre-order you can get the Home Premium version for about £50. If that covered 3 PCs then even I would possibly be interested in upgrading my other half's desktop and laptop which are both running XP. Don't get me wrong, I still prefer Linux but my other half prefers Windows and no matter how much I moan about it she won't budge on it and I'm looking for a quiet life with not much nagging. My Linux machines still outnumber my Windows machines (especially if you include the Wii and DS which I can now run Linux on, albeit rather pointlessly). Not sure what to class my XBOX 360 as, since well it has a PPC CPU and my two original XBOXes also have Linux installed on them. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html