With a personal fortune of over 44 BILLION dollars from price bloated software, I feel someone else might be a little morally responsible.
Remember that most computer products have dropped dramatically in the few years that personal computers have been with us. Not 15 years ago I paid almost £100 for 1Meg (ONE MEGABYTE) of memory. My Commodore PET cost almost £550, with 8Kb of memory and a calculator type keyboard.
How much, pro rata, has Micro$oft reduced its prices...The answer is a negative number.
One article I read about Vista actually compared the price and quantity sold of Win95 to Vista and its predicted sales figures, and guess what, Vista is approximately 5 (FIVE) time more expensive. I for one call that GREED.
A little like the cost of tobacco products in the UK, I for one would have no compunction accepting 2 oz of Golden Virginia for £4.50 were I still smoking.