On Saturday 16 August 2003 03:07 pm, Holden Hao wrote:

> > 27 schools, >1M pesos per school in last five years,
> > with more to come.  Total 50M pesos in last five years,

I read last night that Microsoft's extremely agitated with the prospect of 
Thailand going open source. They're planning to remove the online activation 
code during setup of Windows XP and bundle it with Office XP. And the bundle 
price for the two is....

US $ 35.00 for Thai users.

This low, low price smacks near of being antitrustic. I could foresee them 
offering the base OS in the future for free, while trying to make money from 
Office. Sort of offering IE to beat Netscape out of the market.

That's how desperate they've become, even if they've keep some government key 
account contracts in Europe. 


optimus


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