I HOPE THAT MICROSOFT WOULD MAKE THEIR OS MUCH AFFORDABLE BECAUSE IT'S VERY COSTLY TO BUY 1 NOWADAYS DUE TO ECONOMIC CRISIS.
I'AM APPEALING TO MICROSOFT TO HAVE A CONSIRERATION IN LOWERING THEIR OS.

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Sorry, my mind just blew a few cells there and had to reboot.

So, in other words, Microsoft: BEND OVER!

just a way to grab money

"Yan suggested Microsoft's pricing was not quite what the Chinese are used to"

So someplace between free and $5 would be about right...

Don't forget to use lead paint for the silk screened label.

It really doesn't matter, there are far more pirated copies of windows than bought.

Fact.

Microsoft is trying to make sure the world doesn't buy cheaper windows copies through a developing country with cheap copies...

This naturally bites microsoft in the ass in the form of piracy.

Microsoft will eventually defeat itself.

"so we need to kindly remind them that Chinese customers' affordability should be considered"

Can't beat free!

I'm all for allowing less fortunate people access to important technologies and the idea of getting some money from poor people for a product instead of them pirating it is even better but this idea of welfare to less affluent countries based on their world status is even more inequitable. This idea would further the economic divide in these countries as the rich citizens would benefit from keeping the poor poor so they could get better deals. It's also unfair to the poor in more affluent countries.

A few years ago this made sense but with the advent of high quality free Linux distributions, there isn't a real strong basis for an argument here. The more use it gets, the better it will get and the Chinese population could make Linux a powerhouse by contributing to it's development in man hours and cheap donations that they could afford.