Comments on: Bad Vista! Petition Prime Minister Blair to end Vista rip-off… http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/ Jonathan Stanley's little corner on the Internet where he muses on life, phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board), (X)HTML, CSS, Web Standards, Science, Technology and whatever miscellaneous stuff that takes his fancy. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=X.Y-svn-lambcutlet Comment on Bad Vista! Petition Prime Minister Blair to end Vista rip-off… by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/#comment-3260 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:17:38 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/#comment-3260 That's the thing you see, the Vista was designed with all 90-ish full translations and a further 200-ish partial translations from day one. However, the "preferential" US and Japanese market get the lowest price, where as the rest of the world have to pay a premium. :P That’s the thing you see, the Vista was designed with all 90-ish full translations and a further 200-ish partial translations from day one. However, the “preferential” US and Japanese market get the lowest price, where as the rest of the world have to pay a premium. :P

]]> Comment on Bad Vista! Petition Prime Minister Blair to end Vista rip-off… by: DoubleJ http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/#comment-3259 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:09:45 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/#comment-3259 Here in the Netherlands I've seen this suite for €350, which still is quite a huge price if you compare it to the american one. Does translating of the operating system really cost that much... and the english version did not require any translation at all.... Here in the Netherlands I’ve seen this suite for €350, which still is quite a huge price if you compare it to the american one.

Does translating of the operating system really cost that much… and the english version did not require any translation at all….

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