Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Windows Vista - the true cost
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> | Anyway, our efforts proved successful. After a couple of calls to
> | customer service on Friday, we obtained a refund from Dell for the
> | unwanted software (Vista and MS Works). The big surprise was the
> | refund we were offered: a mere GBP17 for Vista and GBP6 for Works.
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> http://www.bristolwireless.net/news/?p=274
That sounds about the right value for Vista. I wonder if MS actually
*discount* that sale from their metrics though?
> See how Dell tries to prevent people from choosing XP:
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/winxp_dimen?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Here's a translation of that chart:
. Lies
. Lies
. Gobbledegook
. Lies
. Hyperbole
. Yawn
. Yawn
> Where's Linux? Where's true choice in the market?
Patience.
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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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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
11:19:10 up 22 days, 8:51, 3 users, load average: 0.39, 0.26, 0.19
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