What i heard, there is a big "fight" inside Microsoft Europe (and Redmond), because this mess. After all, Microsoft stated on latest article, that they have almost 970.000.000 customers.
Vista works perfectly nowadays, but in start, it was so slow and unstable and marketing screw up, so it was biggest invest by MS and biggest flop. After all, big companies are important than "only" customers, but many still use XP, because Vista. And now Windows 7 have all those fixes and possibilities to use different kind of modes, etc.
Like many, i feel abused by Microsoft, because i have 3 legal Vista licenses and 0 illegal, and what i heard and saw that they already allow "warez"/"piracy" word in their own main forums (MS), because even MS own workers are against some MS decisions, WHAT MAYBE will change!?!? Because if you read that EU Antitrust statement, and their reply, you may surprise that this EU-thing is not so easy.
Those who don't know, in EU, there is only Windows 7 E and/or N version, other is without IE and other is without Media Player. Due the monopoly. Or Both N & E version are also possible, lol.
That's why many big companies will not set any prices (in EU), yet, even some may try, but be careful, because all may change.
I think that MS don't want to mess or screw up their marketing - again.
