Via Slashdot: Microsoft rewards software pirates

["'Richard M. Smith'" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Microsoft <http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/03/1624210.shtml>  Cuts Vista
Price to $66 in China 


Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/>  on Friday August 03, @01:37PM
from the everybody-wants-a-piece dept. 

 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=109> Microsoft

narramissic <http://www.itworld.com/>  writes "Microsoft this week cut
<http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/070803vistachina/index.html>  the retail
price of Windows Vista Home Basic in China by 67% - from 1,521 renminbi to
499 renminbi ($65.80). This is a steep discount compared to what users in
the U.S. and elsewhere are charged for the software. The reason for the
price reduction? Battling piracy, of course. The new pricing 'narrows the
price gap between original versions of Microsoft's software and pirated
copies,' making it that much easier for consumers to 'do the right thing'."

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