Mainly because the enterprise is guaranteed to buy at least a few hundred copies.

Also this is pretty common in other areas too, the rich and celebrities always seem to get more for less.

So here's a question. Suppose a 1000 consumers get together, and petition MSFT to buy a copy of the Windows du jour. Will MSFT give them the same price as a 1000-user company?

Consumers already do, if like 99% of people they get the license with a new computer. MS only soaks the people who buy retail.

"Mainly because the enterprise is guaranteed to buy at least a few hundred copies."

Or a few thousand, or a few hundred thousand.

He clearly has some conflicting views here,"The walled garden thing can’t last forever...Apple and Amazon can be publishers within the universal system. But they can’t have monopoly channels."

This might be a nice idea, but aren't Apple and Amazon directly competing right now? How is it that they are both holding a monopoly on ebooks? People like choice, if there really were one massive distribution system I would worry that it would become the new monopoly.

People have this notion that if you create a digital application or product and don't want it to be shared without your consent, that you have a monopoly over it.