Thats a fair bit of £`s...
A couple of interesting points...
"and will not be offering upgrade product in [that] market, only fully packaged products."
Could prove interesting...will everyone want to pay a load of £`s to switch or will more folks go Linux?
"However, UK shoppers will initially be able to buy the standalone product at upgrade prices for a limited period. "[The full retail price] is more than people would expect to pay," said Painell . "We will be offering fully packaged product at upgrade prices from the launch to the beginning of next year."
<No Sh*t Sherlock>"We don't expect manufacturers to ship without a browser. We expect 100 percent of PCs in market to have browsers. It's up to the manufacturer or retailer to have a separate agreement for that."
Now me being cynical...is this a way round the EU ruling against M$, simply let the manufacturers install & ship 7 with IE (the makers would install IE of course & not M$), of course there wouldn`t be any pressure on them to do so...would there?