Top Selling Software of 2005?

[Golgatha]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=10094

I want to know if the MS Office is a typo. $130 is normal retail price, and they list the average retail price as $30?! Really, I just wanted to post about this so I could knock Norton. They produce the most overpriced, invasive POS software on the face of the planet. Nice to know they're screwing their loyal customers according to this chart also. $13 for full version or $66 for upgrade...WTH?

TurboTax 2004 Deluxe Intuit $40
Norton Antivirus 2005 Symantec $13
Spy Sweeper Tech Bench Webroot $65
TurboTax 2004 Multi State 45 Intuit $40
MS Office 2003 Student/Teacher Ed Microsoft $30
Norton Internet Security 2005 Symantec $26
Norton Internet Security 2005 and Password Manager 2004 Bundle Symantec $34
Norton Antivirus 2005 Upgr Symantec $66
Taxcut 2004 Deluxe Block Financial $64
TurboTax 2004 Intuit $8

 

[Drakkon]

MS Office 2003 Student/Teacher Ed Microsoft $30
This is why its cheaper, students/teachers get it at a discounted rate. Now account for all the students/teachers ther are in the world, who all qualifies for this, and at the price they are getting it at (usually free or under $30) and thats why its a top seller.

but i agree the rest of the stuff on there is crap. I hope microsoft antispyware makes it big in VISTA and puts them outta business frankly. And the fact you have to buy new versions of tubotax/taxcut/etc every year is crap, but i guess thats why it makes it a top seller each year. What a racket that is, take a piece of software, update it to tax code, sell it to an existing customer base of millions...damn...

 

[Malladine]

Top selling software of '05 - World of Warcraft

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Surprised Windows XP isn't on there, or is this consumer-can-buy-it-in-a-box products only?

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Surprised Windows XP isn't on there, or is this consumer-can-buy-it-in-a-box products only?

most people dont buy XP, it comes OEM on their machines as part of the cost