New Pricing for OneNote

re: New Pricing for OneNote

Roland Siegert — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:18:00 GMT

Chris,
The price reduction is very welcome!
I know of many people here in Germany who were interested to buy OneNote but finally didn't because it was so expensive. In fact, OneNote still costs 249 EUR (~ $299 !!) at Amazon Germany (see http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C0XNG/qid=1091531946/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/302-6647581-7844859). Therefore, many people in Germany bought Toshiba OEM versions of OneNote at eBay. I'm sure this will change now after the huge price reduction...

Regards,
Roland

RE: New Pricing for OneNote

mearls@hotmail.com (Michael Earls) — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:27:00 GMT

Great news! OneNote is a fantastic product and I hope it gets more widespread usage.

re: New Pricing for OneNote

Jonathan Greene — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:05:00 GMT

I think the pricing is good... looking forward to giving it a real go. I am using a PC and XP for the first time in a long while as a longtime mac user. One issue with OneNote is this -- it won't install. Both my attempts and those of my system administrator are blocked by a lovely error - Fatal Error During Installation

re: New Pricing for OneNote

Sam Smith — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:12:00 GMT

A very welcome reduction! That actually puts the price at a pretty nice level here in Europe, at least in the UK, as we are strong against the dollar.

OneNote price change

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re: New Pricing for OneNote

Mike Walsh Helsinki — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:11:00 GMT

Somehow I doubt whether the price will actually be the equivalent of $99 in Europe.

For one we have different levels of tax in the different countries thus adding different amounts to the basic price.

For two $99 is a US dollar sweet spot - but in Europe (well most of it) the sweet spot would be 99 Euros or a 20% increase and in the UK no doubt £99 (a 50%+ increase).

So the strong pound someone else referred to isn't going to help much in my opinion.

We've always had to pay over prices for US software and it's not going to stop with this product - laudable though that would be.

re: New Pricing for OneNote

Chris_Pratley (MS) — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:32:00 GMT

Mike, the $99 is MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price), and of course the price we charge retailers is less that that so that they can make a decent margin at the $99 in-store price. You're right - the retailers have control over what they set the price to be (in the US, they tend to set the price under the MSRP due to the intense competition). One hopes that competition between retailers and the relatively free market in Europe means you have a chance of getting the product for a price close to MSRP. A price of $99 (or euro equivalent) gives retailers a significant margin so they don't have to go beyond that unless they choose to. Taxes are on top of the price we set too. I hope the price you end up with in Europe tends to be at least <100 euros. And maybe ~£79 in the UK?

re: New Pricing for OneNote

Mike Walsh Helsinki — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:15:00 GMT

Fingers crossed. It's in any case a nice start setting the MSRP to be the same. Thanks for that!

[Things are in any case much better than they were when I moved to Finland 15 years ago when local prices were what they could get (=high) and local support what they could get away with (=low)]

OT: Have you seen the new Devorak article on Word?

Edward — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:23:00 GMT

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1634898,00.asp

He doesn't seem to be having a very good experiance with it, and his article has garnered a wave of comments with similar complaints.

How can you respond when such high profile tech commentators produce a long list of problems.
A lot of it seems to be based on misconceptions but its a bit hard to explain "HTML output is designed for round-tripping not for webpage creation" when he just wants it to work the way he thinks it ought to.