Vista - Buying Vista from the U.S.

Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we can
order Vista from the States or will it not work on European computers?

Short answer: probably

Long answer: http://www.microsoft.com/exporting/faq.htm

more specifically: http://www.microsoft.com/exporting/faq.htm#vista

It depends on what country you're in.


"Wallace" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European computers?
>

"Wallace" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European computers?
>


Just make sure that it does not come with all the language features
disabled!

I've just had to let MS validate my licence so that I can download an update
which enables me to display the Help in Office 97 and I presume similar
vintage windows applications.

Why was this update not included. - I recon that it is a deliberate ploy by
MS to ensure that I am running legitimate software.

--
Michael Chare

Wallace wrote:
> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we can
> order Vista from the States or will it not work on European computers?
>
>

The best way to do it is have someone in the States buy you a copy and
send it to you via Global Priority US Mail. That's how I got a new copy
of XP Pro and it works fine here in Spain, activated and was declared
genuine.

Alias

Not sure how much it is in the states but Ultimate OEM is about £130 in the
UK.
You can have my copy if you like lol

"Alias" <alias@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
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> Wallace wrote:
>> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
>> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
>> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European
>> computers?
>
> The best way to do it is have someone in the States buy you a copy and
> send it to you via Global Priority US Mail. That's how I got a new copy of
> XP Pro and it works fine here in Spain, activated and was declared
> genuine.
>
> Alias

"Wallace" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European computers?

>>>>>Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%.<<<<<

That's because the EU sued Microsoft and MS had to create a special version
for the EU plus pay a fine. The money has to come from somewhere. Costs go
up when government meddles in Private Enterprise.

I paid $200 for Ultimate OEM in the States.

"Isaac Hunt" <isaac@hunt.com> wrote in message
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> Not sure how much it is in the states but Ultimate OEM is about £130 in
> the UK.
> You can have my copy if you like lol
>
> "Alias" <alias@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
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>> Wallace wrote:
>>> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
>>> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
>>> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European
>>> computers?
>>
>> The best way to do it is have someone in the States buy you a copy and
>> send it to you via Global Priority US Mail. That's how I got a new copy
>> of XP Pro and it works fine here in Spain, activated and was declared
>> genuine.
>>
>> Alias
>
>

I don't think that's anything to do with it.
Just about everything in Europe is more expensive than in the US.

"Mellowed" <nospam@spam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Wallace" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> newsWxOh.17778$NK3.6082@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
>> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
>> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
>> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European
>> computers?
>
>>>>>>Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%.<<<<<
>
> That's because the EU sued Microsoft and MS had to create a special
> version for the EU plus pay a fine. The money has to come from somewhere.
> Costs go up when government meddles in Private Enterprise.
>
>
>
>

Mellowed wrote:
>
> I paid $200 for Ultimate OEM in the States.

About $US69 cheaper than in the UK.

Alias
>
> "Isaac Hunt" <isaac@hunt.com> wrote in message
> news:bJVOh.31041$GI.17355@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
>> Not sure how much it is in the states but Ultimate OEM is about £130
>> in the UK.
>> You can have my copy if you like lol
>>
>> "Alias" <alias@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
>> news:euf03b$pv6$1@aioe.org...
>>> Wallace wrote:
>>>> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor
>>>> North Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know
>>>> whether we can order Vista from the States or will it not work on
>>>> European computers?
>>>
>>> The best way to do it is have someone in the States buy you a copy
>>> and send it to you via Global Priority US Mail. That's how I got a
>>> new copy of XP Pro and it works fine here in Spain, activated and was
>>> declared genuine.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>

Isaac Hunt wrote:
> Not sure how much it is in the states but Ultimate OEM is about £130 in the
> UK.
> You can have my copy if you like lol

No thanks ;-)

Alias
>
> "Alias" <alias@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
> news:euf03b$pv6$1@aioe.org...
>> Wallace wrote:
>>> Our much beloved Microsoft have racked up the prices for us poor North
>>> Europeans compared to Americans by at least 50%. Do you know whether we
>>> can order Vista from the States or will it not work on European
>>> computers?
>> The best way to do it is have someone in the States buy you a copy and
>> send it to you via Global Priority US Mail. That's how I got a new copy of
>> XP Pro and it works fine here in Spain, activated and was declared
>> genuine.
>>
>> Alias
>
>