Cheapest Windows Vista costing only $66
Microsoft has dramatically cut the price of Windows Vista Home versions in China in a bid to boost sales.
This could be seen as a move to counter the wide spread of pirated version of Windows Vista in the chinese market, which is believed to be selling for $1 per DVD. Reducing Vista’s price in China narrows the price gap between original versions of Microsoft’s software and pirated copies, and should result in higher sales
But, the problem is not about piracy, it lies more on the mentality of each individual. Having the opportunity to further my studies in Australia, I have come to notice that with the current booming economy, the whites or Australians do buy pirated CDs when they visit countries like China or simply download them off the internet with programs like Bittorrent.
$66 may be cheap for citizens from first world countries.
Answers.com raises questions about Google’s power
Every six months Google would adjust their search engine algorithmic accordingly, this move could potentially effect certain bloggers and their ranking, Answer.com is the latest victim with a drop of approximately 28% of their traffic.
Every blogger should diversify and if 90% of your traffic comes from Google, then you’re pretty much in trouble. Submit your blog to various search engine, China Maza has a list of chinese search engine that a blogger could submit their URL to.
Answers Corporation (ANSW) announced today that, due to a search engine algorithmic adjustment by Google, Answers.com has seen a drop in search engine traffic starting last week. As a result, overall traffic is currently down approximately 28% from levels immediately prior to the change.
Read Answer.com Press Release.
