Group Members: Adel Nagaria & Muhammed Khan

Topic: Microsoft Word.

Instructor: Dorothy Marchildon

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Microsoft's announcement this week that it's cutting retail prices for some editions of Office XP--and that the upcoming Office 2003 will likely carry the same price tags--may end up antagonizing big business customers stuck with volume pricing.

At least that's the view of Paul DeGroot, analyst with Directions on Microsoft. He questions Microsoft's publicly stated reasons for chopping prices by about 15% for Office XP Standard and Office XP Professional, and approximately 30% for standalone applications such as Word and Excel.