That's just for producing the media. Plus shipping? Staff costs to man a phone line. Multiple people to produce and vet copy that will go on websites. More staff to brief and train everyone throughout the chain. Just so that, across the world, MS can fulfil these ad-hoc purchases.
In large organisations, anything that is ad-hoc is very expensive. If there was just a website to order a CD and have it shipped to you, then it would cost less than $30. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2010 11:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Downgrade Circus On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > $30 seems to not much more than cost-recovery (and it's probably > loss-making). Eh? In the distant past, I saw cost figures for mass-produced software media, and it was tiny. Less than a dollar per unit. And I believe prices on that have come down. While order processing and fulfillment isn't free, if it's costing Microsoft $30 to ship a media kit they're doing something very wrong. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
