____/ Linonut on Tuesday 24 July 2007 17:30 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Kelsey Bjarnason belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> [snips]
>>
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:03:39 +1000, Gregory Shearman wrote:
>>
>>> The simple reason is that nearly all PCs come with preinstalled windows.
>>>
>>> Most people don't even know there's such a thing as an OS.
>>
>> "Isn't Word part of Windows?" -- Question asked by a client. No, it's
>> not, despite the fact that every machine you've ever bought has included
>> some form of it.
>>
>> MS does quite the job of work trying to confuse just such issues so that
>> people have no idea what they're actually getting, what they're actually
>> paying for, what's a trial version, what's a full version, etc, etc, etc.
>
> Microsoft, slicker than a car salesman.
Many Vista PCs come in Basic form.
"Isn't that Aero Glass transparent thingie part of Windows?"
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