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What's the cost of little or no competition?

For some Microsoft customers, it's paying as much as 107 percent more for the software they buy in volume.

As previously reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft on Oct. 1 will dramatically change how it licenses software to its largest customers. That change will drive up what they pay for products such as Office XP or Windows 2000 between 33 percent and 107 percent, according to market researcher Gartner.

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