| I highly doubt MS will do anything, the retail sales of windows are a sideline to the real deal which is oem.
They aren't going to be bothered about the retail sales unless they are zero, and some people are going to be buying vista.
When you compare it to OS X pricing, MS are getting very close to being suicidal in pushing people over to the other OS's out there.
I have to buy a copy of vista and run that and windows as otherwise I couldn't support my clients properly. Other than that the only thing keeping me on windows is gaming.
As for OcUK releasing it early, I'd imagine MS are not happy about it, but the volumes that OcUK will ship mean that they will do sweet fa about it. That said they managed to make Amazon remove their preorders so who knows.
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