And if you have a student in your family, you can get 3 copies of office xp teacher / student edition for much cheaper: $149.00 for 3 copies. http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/students/overview.mspx Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@xxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: RE: User Linux > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Brent Fox > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:54 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: User Linux > > >Also, just to make it fair, the $99 price for Windows XP Home is for > the upgrade version. The retail price for the full version of Windows > XP Home is $199: > > > >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=316255 > > > >Then add Office 2003 to that at $369 for the full version: > >http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=539386 > > > >$199 + $369 = $568 > > > Well, to make it *really* fair you can't count Office in the price > calculations since OpenOffice is available for Windows as well. > The same could be said for a fair number of packages that are being > considered part of the Linux bundle/price-advantage comparison. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
