In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff
<bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:25:52 +0000
<52cc7oF1nbjsuU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 18:57 The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:29:32 +0000
>> <58526403.3SYDsG8HW9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Poll: Will you rush out to buy Microsoft's new
>>> Windows Vista operating system?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Yes
>>> |
>>> | 3%
>>> |
>>> | 1779 votes
>>> |
>>> |
>>> | No
>>> |
>>> | 97%
>>> |
>>> | 52651 votes
>>> `----
>>>
>>
>> [rest snipped]
>>
>> Don't worry; they'll buy it later. (They'll have to,
>> because of OEM contracts. :-P )
>
> That's right - except for all those who "got it free, because it came with
> the computer"?:-)
>
Well, they still bought it in that case; they just don't know it. :-)
Even if they didn't buy Vista with their computer, if I understand
the disputes correctly. I would have thought Microsoft would have
stopped doing that sort of contract by now, especially after
the DoJ settlement.
But color me suspicious.
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