Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199  

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I don’t think Microsoft gets it. Expensive software isn’t what it’s all about any more. They should know this, since they themselves are now building their own hardware. It’s all about bundling. Including the software in the price of things. And when a new OS comes out? Let your users upgrade for less than $50. Then they’re actually motivated to upgrade.

Sure, there’s a $39.99 “online-only” upgrade program for a “limited time” but doesn’t that just scream that Microsoft knows they’re overpricing their own product? They know their competitors are pricing them out of the market? There has to be a better way to do this, surely. Don’t they want the everyday user to want to upgrade?

I wonder how much it will cost to upgrade the WinRT Surface to Windows 9.

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