Microsoft in its quest against piracy has significantly lowered prices on it's Office suite.
Microsoft has quietly cut the price tag on its popular Office suite by more than a half to lure some pirated software users to buy licensed copies in India. The special price of Rs 6,950 for each box is being offered for a disguised ’Student and Teacher Edition.’ The regular Office standard edition, however, costs around Rs 15,000.
With the recent new-fangled boom in medical tourism in India, I can just see something akin to software tourism taking off ;) Tourists come to India, buy 10 CDs of low-priced software, which will cumulatively save them enough to pay for their travel expenses :S This Financial Express article can be read here.