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The price is wrong for Windows 7

There's no doubt that Windows 7 is going to be one of the better releases of Windows in the product's long history, but is the Redmond giant holding back uptake with the pricing?

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There's no doubt that Windows 7 is going to be one of the better releases of Windows in the product's long history, but is the Redmond giant holding back uptake with the pricing?

The Patch Monday team examine the pricing released last week, which disclosed that retail prices will sail above the $400 mark for a full retail copy of the operating system. Is this an opening for Apple or Ubuntu to exploit? Can Suzanne create an operating system in assembly?

In other news discussed, Dimension Data is conducting an internal pilot of the release candidate of Windows 7.

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