Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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> | Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
> | Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
> | want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
> | number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
> | [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
> | it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
> | remote control."
Packaging something as y when its x can be prosecuted
under consumer protection laws.
It may just be that vista homo edition is just
windope expee homo edition with sp3.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
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> This was said before, but this time it comes from a system builder which
> has been feeling cozy with Microsoft for a long time.
>
> No virtualisation permitted with Basic either... it's all about money
> extraction and piracy control really squeezes that goose.
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