Microsoft, recently, lunched it first tentative foothold in Phnom Penh with a drive for local PC users to go genuine. … this could be an important step in partnership with the government and the people of Cambodia.. some shorts of booming Cambodian market with strong message to potential international investment partners. Yet, real Microsoft products remain unrealistically expensive for people like me to make it real too. I am, like the other people as well, often shop for a much cheaper pirated version of ubiquitous software which just a corner of my house… hee. How come a fully licensed version of Vista edition costs US$399…here in Cambodia? Perhaps having a licensed Microsoft product for PC users in American or Europe would just present only ONE percent of their income. But in Cambodia it might be almost haft of their annual income already…. that’s scrap! My favorite place here is Dics Center where I just get away pirated copies of just US$2 per software. …. that’s choice, right? No one would say…”hay..u have to be genuine..” I am not supporte piracy though, but we still have five years more of good time to enjoy until 2013, complement to WTO intellectual property right….that’s choice again, right? However, it is so much different using non-licensed and the licensed Microsoft products. The feeling is also different (I wish they paid me to say these..!) too. I’m now using both licensed and non-licensed—yet still prefer genuine!
