Posted on 25 Jan 2007
Windows Vista Launched in China?
Source: http://tech.tom.com/2007-01-26/005D/02466584_02.html
Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in China earlier than the expected date, i.e. 30th this month. According to an article on Tom.com, the series of Windows Vista products have been marketed by a well-known online portal in China, i.e. 8844.com. When I visited the 8844.com as mentioned just now, this site has marketed these two products, which are Windows Vista Ultimate Chinese (中文旗舰版) and Windows Vista Home Basic Chinese. The listed price is in the range of ￥1530.00 to ￥2760.00. For the Windows Vista Home basic, the site even offered the service of delivery as this product has been marketed by them since 22th this month.
Meanwhile, there is widely reported by Engadget that the black market Vista copies already in the China’s market. I’m not sure whether the early launched of Windows Vista by Microsoft is acted as a tactical move to reduce the software piracy and ensure that Microsoft’s customers in China will receive the product quality that they expected. Or this may considered as a good product strategy as Microsoft “quietly” launched the products in order to create the buying awareness. Despite the people in China, or I should say the people no matter where they live, they know the benefits of buying a genuine copy of Windows Vista, some simply can’t afford to that price. I’ve been thinking for some time now that the price really could be a serious shortcoming for a certain number of good products when they’ve released to the market.
