Topic: MS botches Office 2010 prices, hikes Professional by £30

[Clive]

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.

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[Simon]

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

[Clive]

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.

[Simon]

Me neither. 

[Rodders]

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.

[Clive]

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.   

[Simon]

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