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Title: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Clive on February 17, 2010, 20:54

Microsoft got its sums wrong on the price tag for the boxed version of Office Professional 2010, forcing it to hike the product by £30.

The company revealed UK prices for its Office 2010 editions yesterday, but mistakenly priced the off-the-shelf Professional version to retail at £399.99.

"Following the announcement on UK pricing for Office 2010 this morning, we wanted to flag that the price of £399.99 quoted for the boxed version of Office Professional 2010 is incorrect; the price should actually read as £429.99," a Microsoft spokesman told us late on Wednesday.

FULL STORY (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/microsoft_office_2010_prices_uk_sums_wrong/)

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Simon on February 17, 2010, 21:18

Even at half the price it would still be ridiculously expensive.

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Clive on February 17, 2010, 21:29

You can buy a decent computer for that sort of money.  My 2007 version of Office only cost 60 quid and I would never pay £429.99 for a slightly newer edition.

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Simon on February 17, 2010, 21:48

Me neither.  ;)

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Rodders on February 17, 2010, 22:30

Microsoft are trippin' if they think struggling businesses are going to dump perfectly serviceable earlier versions of Office just to have the latest one.  I suspect open-source alternatives are about to get an unexpected boost.

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Clive on February 17, 2010, 23:09

There is no limit on the number of times my copy of Office 2000 can be installed yet Office 2007 is limited to just three.   >:(

Title: Re: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30
Post by: Simon on February 17, 2010, 23:49

I must have installed my Office 2003 at least three times.