...for a company that is worth, in my opinion, no more than 1p with FREE postage.

I mean I've heard of selling your soul, but actually giving them money to take it?

Mind you there is a few things I'd like to do to clippy...

*gets shock paddles*

I guess that installing Linux on it would void that warranty..?

Typically inflated PC World price. My advice? Shop around.

Just like everything else at PChell?

can I get it from Dabs for half the price?

They'll be okay, provided they don't start selling a "Linux Torvalds" as well....

So if I were to buy Microsoft, could I fire Ballmer? Pix of him carrying a little cardboard box while being escorted to the parking lot by security would be worth the money...

Maybe I'd let him keep his job if he did the monkey dance for me. Nah... first I'd make him do the monkey dance, _then_ I'd fire him.

I reckon if I wait a bit, the price will drop below £100.00

And think about it - if M$ is £100, that makes Ask about £5, and Lycos about 3p.

I've always wanted my very own pet monkey. Although not sure about the excess sweating but at least if I get bored I can lock him in a room with a load of chairs and yell "google".

This is probably just payment to arrange a date with Ballmer. You have to pay for the meal , the monkey suit and the chairs for him to throw as this is not included in the price. He will provide the sweat and for an extra £200 he will do his monkey boy lap dance for you.

If your surname is Google then be prepared for some abuse! He may fu%#*ing kill you.

Once he has had his meal he will more than likely accuse you of infringing on their patents or something.

Apparently, they won't let you run linux on it - voids the warranty.

That 'image currently not available'

Made me smile anyway

We sell it for that price to our clients anyway. It's only home and student version, so no Outlook, and only Excel 2007, OneNote 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007.

I think we nearly sold one copy of it since it came out! Would have been more amazing if it was small business or pro! But of course, they wouldn't be making their tenner or so then!

someone needs to buy it then sue pc world for false advertising! it would be hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do I have to buy a piece of hardware with that? ;-)

The difference between a donkey and a mule is that a donkey is a cross between a duck and a monkey, whereas a mule is a cross between a monk and an eel.

My monitor's £100 cheaper now than when I bought it last year. Bunch of depreciating technology arse. Still, they're charging more than they are for Microsoft.

...the chairs that Ballmer will throw around when he finds out I am going to open source the whole Windows code base?

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I like to go into a store, look at the instore price, then whip out my PDA, reserve it online with some stupid discount, give PDA to PC World employee who looks confused then agrees.

It'll probably cost about half that, thanks to the way they convert dollars to pounds sterling.

...totally invalidates any otherwise good points in your posts!

As does "guesstimate", although MGuestimate doesn't have quite the same ring as MDollar Sign!

*gives up hope for humanity*

Oh, I see. It's a picture of a man getting his coat. I wish we could have several icons, e.g. in case someone makes a sordid joke about Paris Hilton AND Steve Jobs.

Love the little images you guys have put on the comments, perhaps a penguin one to balance out the gates ones?

Oh Microsoft for sale again? nah didn't want to buy them the first time.

No image available... click on the more info and its Vista HP upgrade... They are also flogging Vista HP with Office Home and Student for a mere £189.99 as a bundle... Vista "Ultimate" (which I call Ultienemy) for a £119.99 32 bit... OEM only and Vista HP OEM for £69.99 32 bit only... are they trying to get trade from Amazon or some of the small businesses on ebay?

It does however come with the following warning... "OEM software is intended for system builders and small OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) who manufacture computer systems and preinstall OEM system builder software onto those systems. It is not intended for purchase or installation by consumers." Clearly they are trying to get around the piece of hardware needed under MS OEM selling terms... maybe thats a good idea as you would get a 1998 recycled RAM key ring with PC World all over it...

Which IT pro would shop in PC World? PC World know that... so do MS. PC World is normally for people who buy IT products that have pics of a dumb blond or good looking (opinion is divided here) women which translates as a numptie's item with no IT nouce... or nouce to start with.

Anonymous Vulture, I'd be confused if some IT expert gave me a PDA expecting to buy Microsoft. The joke would be on them!

Looks like you'll need two extra icons; one for the multitude of Anonymous Vulture comments and another so we can skip those from Amanfrommars.

I Suppose it's used, but reboxed to look new.

Of course I immediately ordered 1 Microsoft. As the royal mail is not clogging the street nor letterboxes these days, DHL could speedily deliver.

The package however erroneously contained 1 enraged bobcat! I'd rate them A-- and will not buy from them again.

Not available for dollars then? What about the export laws? Not to mention passports, visas, &c.?

If Marvin the Martian wants to take them back to Mars with him then I say good riddance to bad rubbish(The rubbish being Microsoft not Marvin) and give the person (Marvin) who gets rid of them a promotion for such trash removal to a HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL AREA

..and it didn't work and wrecked my computer, so I took it back and they said i'd invalidated the warranty by opening the box. I said I'd paid for one of those extended warranties and they looked nervous and said that I'd invalidated that too by installing my Microsoft.

I think it must have a virus-thing because a purple dinosaur keeps popping up and saying that Uncle Ballmer wants to take me for a ride to get some new shoes.

with something to test it on.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/103348

I'm going to buy Microsoft for £150, spam everyone telling them that I am about to release a stable operating system, sell my shares when the price peaks and leave everyone to pick up the pieces.

The old classic spam pump and dump scheme :)

Even if it was free it would still be...

1. buggy

2. pointless

3. require perfectly good hardware to be replaced

4. Fail the WGA authentication