There was Bill Gates on the telly on Wednesday morning telling the Sky News interviewer that Microsoft does what it can to make the price of its products uniform in the different countries in which it sells them across the world.
Gates is said to be a brilliant mathematician. So, Bill, how come Microsoft did such a lousy job of trying to secure uniformity between the US and UK prices for Vista?
The dollar price is the same as the pound price. $249 for the top-of-the-range version of Vista in the USA. GBP249 for the same version in the UK.
As even the richest man in the world probably knows, one pound equals two dollars. The UK consumer is being asked to pay double the price the US consumer pays.
Either you’re taking the piss, Bill, or you’re so rich you’ve forgotten how to count.
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