[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Cameron Bell]

It's a bit like Bait marketing. You get people using the product, you 
rely on them never wanting to try another Office Suite because "I only 
know Office" and then you charge them full price when they leave Uni. 
Same thing in schools. Lets give schools Windows at a reduced price via 
a Govt or Bulk Licensing Agreement, so at home they want what they are 
using at school. You hook them early in the hope of them becoming 
dependent on your product and being able to charge them full price later.
Dealers used to give people cheap/free shots of heroin in the hope of 
hooking them and making more off them when they were addicted.
(Lets NOT jump up and down and say I'm calling a software company a drug 
dealer - It's purely and example of baiting in the hope of getting 
further sales.)

Michael Walker wrote:
>>>> Charles Clarke<cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> 03/06/07 08:55am >>>
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>> Smells very like a scam to me.  Has anyone verified this... apart from the claims on the site quoted?
>> Cheers
>> Charlie
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> It was in yesterday's Age with quotes from Microsoft representatives.
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> http://www.theage.com.au/news/home-office/uni-students-get-office-2007-for-75/2007/03/05/1172943327075.html
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