At retail stores, Apple prepares to counter Vista
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| Apple has been waging a quiet war against Microsoft's new
| Windows Vista operating system in its television ads and on
| its Web site. Now, the Mac maker is bringing the fight to its
| chain of 170 retail stores, as well.
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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0702vista.html
This could open the door to companies like Canonical. All the exclusionary
contracts would be invalidated, so Linux could be put on display.
Related:
Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
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| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
The hunt for a Linux PC
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| Where can the average South African consumer get their hands on a
| new PC loaded with Linux instead of Windows? Not a lot of places,
| as it turns out.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1352
Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit
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| A judge on Friday told jurors they must accept as fact that a
| federal court found in 1999 that Microsoft holds a monopoly over
| computer operating systems and that it restricted computer
| manufacturers' ability to use competing systems.
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| [...]
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| She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
| to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
| other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
| chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1
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