Microsoft aims to double PC base

Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users.

Didn't apple just get bollocked for selling itunes songs cheaper to europe than us? Microsoft have a lot of catching up to do with apple! no wonder they're panicking.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6571139.stm

microsoft have been charging to much for years.

[TEC]

How are they panicing Looks more like they are trying to get a foot in the door of developing countries who wont even know what iTunes is and they are not selling software cheap to users, just goverments with conditions

Governments in developing countries can purchase the cut-price software, if they provide free PCs for schools.

Originally Posted by TEC

How are they panicing Looks more like they are trying to get a foot in the door of developing countries who wont even know what iTunes is and they are not selling software cheap to users, just goverments with conditions

i'm just anti-pc really Itunes is becoming pretty standard for music, i'd love it if apple offered a good word processor to challenge office. Microsoft Word winds me up so much! i use excel daily and its a pain too, reasonably powerful but with such niggles. Apparently office '07 is completely different, a complete revision. Reviews have been mixed...

If you don't like microsoft's offering, why not try an open source package like Open Office.org?

thought about it, but just used microsoft out of habit. Is it any good? I just find that word and excel are full of dumb@ss features. It tries to correct everything you do, making things worse!

[TEC]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

i'm just anti-pc really

So get a MAC and install Open Office

Apparently office '07 is completely different, a complete revision...

It is but to get all the good bits you'll be needing a few more bits, starts with a Windows 2003 Server

Originally Posted by Moffatt666

If you don't like microsoft's offering, why not try an open source package like Open Office.org?

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

thought about it, but just used microsoft out of habit....

As do 99% of the people who use MS products and moan about them, alternatives have been available for a long time

well i've used a mac for a while (i was a skeptic, but really...they are better...way better...) but i find that the microsoft version of office conflicts enough with mac one, that using open office would only cause more problems. But i'll give it a go

The management at our company were too tight fisted to fork out for MS Office licences for all of our machines. I'm glad they were.

As a result, almost everyone runs OpenOffice. It has complete MS Office compatability, and does stuff that MS Office doesn't.

I love the fact that I can export any document I like to a PDF directly inside OpenOffice.

MS Office does look more appealing to the eye though. But then, form vs function.