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and EU prices for Anytime Upgrades by calculating their cost as the percentage of the price of a popular netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE, which on Monday was the best-selling netbook on the U.K. The most likely scenario, using Anytime Upgrade to bump up from Starter to Home Premium, costs 23% more in the EU.Ĭomputerworld also compared U.S., U.K.
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The Home Premium-to-Professional Anytime Upgrade costs 163% more in France and Germany, for instance, than in the U.S., while the Starter to Professional is 111% more. Prices listed in Euros show an even greater disparity when converted to dollars.
For a Professional-to-Ultimate upgrade, however, the two market's prices are essentially a wash. prices is for the Home Premium-to-Professional Anytime Upgrade U.K. That consumption tax is included in Microsoft's U.K. was 8.6% in 2008 - for a better comparison with Europe's Value Added Tax, or VAT. prices include sales tax - the average combined sales tax burden in the U.S. A Starter to Home Premium Anytime Upgrade, for example, is priced 34% higher in the U.K., when British pounds are converted to dollars at the current exchange rate. customers will pay up to 104% more for an Anytime Upgrade, depending on the upgrade chosen. That person then decides they want their netbook to do more."Īccording to Microsoft's price list, U.K. "Over time, they find they are using that netbook as their primary every-day PC. "A customer may purchase a netbook thinking they would primarily use it for e-mail," a Microsoft spokesman said last week.
Microsoft has pitched the Anytime Upgrades to Wall Street as one way it hopes to boost Windows revenue, and has been most aggressive in touting them for netbook owners, who may want to move up to Home Premium.
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Anytime Upgrades let users move up the Windows 7 edition stack by buying, say, an upgrade from Starter, the version slated for the very cheapest netbooks, to Home Premium simply by purchasing a product key to "unlock" the more expensive edition's features.Īnytime Upgrades will be available starting Oct. customers for packaged copies of Windows 7, calling its headline "inaccurate."īut prices of the recently-announced Anytime Upgrades are even more expensive for European Union (EU) customers. In late June, Bill Veghte, the senior vice president for the Windows business group, rejected claims by a British financial newspaper that European consumers would pay more for Windows 7 because of a move it made - since retracted - to dump Internet Explorer (IE) from the new OS.įollow-up messages from Microsoft's public relations firm at the time took exception to a Computerworld story that concluded Europeans would pay up to twice as much as U.S. Microsoft may have denied that it's gouging European customers with its Windows 7 pricing, but an analysis by Computerworld shows that EU buyers will be paying as much as 163% more for some of the company's in-place Anytime Upgrades. Although Microsoft says it's not gouging European customers with its Windows 7 pricing, an analysis by Computerworld shows that EU buyers will pay as much as 163% more for some of the company's in-place Anytime Upgrades.