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Re: [News] Acer Angry at Microsoft over Vista, Says Entire Industry is "Disappointed", Introduces Linux

____/ 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
>>
>>,----[ Quote
>>| 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."
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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