____/ John Locke on Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:04 : \____
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:16:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
>>
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>>| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
>>| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
>>| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
>>|
>>| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users
>>| and businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report.
>>| Taiwan-based Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP,
>>| Dell and Lenovo.
>>|
>>| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
>
> "Michael Cherry, analyst with Directions at Microsoft, said part of
> the problem is that users prefer lower-cost machines that might not
> work well with Vista."
>
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> Prefer ????? You mean they can't afford a high end machine to run
> Vista.
Let them have cakes (oh! And Surface).
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