Jun 25 2009
I am Microshafted again!
Win7 pricing has been released.
This is getting bad folks.
Those who want to upgrade to Windows 7 on a older PC will pay a reduced price for the software. Stand alone versions of Windows 7, that can run on more than one PC, will also be available.
Microsoft said these upgrade options will not be available to Europeans.
"We will not be able to offer an upgrade product within Europe," said John Curran, Windows business lead at Microsoft UK, adding that only the full version of the software will be available to Europeans.
This is market discrimination at its worst.
The upgrade option was not available, Microsoft said, because it was trying to comply with European competition regulations.
Which is pure bullshit! Microsoft didn’t like being called a monopolist and paying billions of dollars worth of fines. Now they are trying to get the fines back out of European customers.
A Commission spokesman dismissed Microsoft’s claim that it was taking the action to comply with European laws.
"For them to claim that this is somehow imposed by the Commission or is going to resolve the problem with the Commission is far from clear," he said. "It’s certainly not because we’ve asked them to do it."
It appears that the commission agrees but will not yet go so far as to state what I just said. This is Microsoft trying to get back at us for those billions of dollars of fines that they were supposed to pay1
M$ willfully violated the law, was found guilty in court and then willfully refused to pay the resulting fine. They then got fined for failure to pay the fine, with interest, and only made token payment when about to be levied a fine for failure to pay the fine, which was for failure to pay the fine, which was for failure to pay the original fine. All in all, some +20B$2 .