Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Downing Street rejects Vista petition
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> | The petition called on the PM to "bring pressure on Microsoft to
> | stop them overcharging the UK for its Vista Operating System".
> | The petition noted that a fully-fledged version of Vista costs
> | GBP350 in the UK, but an identical product costs only GBP195
> | in the US.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/09/vista_epetition/
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> Are they kidding? The PM is a pal of Bill Gates.
http://media.slated.org/albums/userpics/Blairs_Pal_Gates.png
What's the point of a government petition site, when that government is
as bent as the companies we're petitioning about?
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K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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