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To: damniseedemons who wrote (18479)	4/15/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, >>Moreover, the "evolutionary" upgrades were always equally pricey; so I don't think complaints against Win98's price hold credence. My upgrade from MacOS 8.0 to 8.1 does not cost anything and they have IE integration and a new file system too. It is true that historically OS upgrades are evolutionary and also shipped with development tools, source code, and a set of manuals. Also there were not 100 million platforms to bring economies-of-scale into the pricing equations on other OS systems. We are not seeing the reductions in software prices that are being seen in the hardware sectors for some strange reason. Why? Because MSFT can set the price of Windows to whatever it wants and every major OEM will just pass the bill onto us. Cheers, Norm