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OS costs[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 12:37:41 AM PDT

About 10 years ago, a nice desktop system would cost over $1500. Now they are under the $500 range. While every other component has dropped in price, the cost of Windows has remained the same or even increased. At home, I use OpenOffice. I recently moved to a new work environment and Microsoft Office is what is used. I toyed around with the idea of purchasing a copy of Office. The price was over $300 almost as much as an entire desktop computer. I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop. Shouldn't you?

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Ah, but Windows...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 11, 2005 at 02:45:27 AM PDT

I'm sure Micro$oft would argue that Windows has gotten a lot more complex in that time - heck, ten years ago you could still buy it on floppy disc. :) Of course, so has all the hardware and everything else, and those prices have dropped, but I'm sure Microsoft will quietly ignore that... The price of Office is truly bananas though. I needed Access to do some freelance work last year and it blew a sizeable hole in my fee... It wouldn't be so bad if it were something that was obviously a high-quality purchase but I can't for the life of me see what's in Access that makes it worth that money. (Other than that Microsoft can get away with charging that amount because poor saps like me have no choice but to buy it.)

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by Anonymous User on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:57:57 AM PDT

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by Anonymous User on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 08:14:00 AM PDT

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