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____/ Terry Porter on Sunday 06 Sep 2009 01:28 : \____
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:40:53 +0100, bbgruff wrote:
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>> Terry Porter wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:25:09 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Microsoft attack Linux at the retail level. (Probably not 56k
>>>> friendly)
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>>>> | So I work at Best Buy (insert boos and hisses) and I was doing some
>>>> Microsoft | ExpertZone training.
>>>> |
>>>> | Well, the new one for Windows 7 allows me to get a $10 retail copy
>>>> of Windows | 7 after completing the courses. So I figured I'd get it
>>>> and sell it for a | quick buck. Now, during my training modules, a
>>>> "Linux vs Windows 7" module | appeared.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.overclock.net/windows/569458-microsoft-attack-linux-retail-
>>> level-probably.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, MS are desperate, lonely and unloved!
>>
>> Dunno about that, but it's very encouraging, isn't it?
>>
>> Assuming this is not a hoax, this is MS teaching BestBuy (Asda?)
>> employees what to say when customers ask for netbooks?
>>
>> - so presumably there are some Linux netbooks still for sale in the
>> U.S., and customers are choosing those with Windows so universally that
>> the sales staff at BestBuy need to be instructed on what to say so that
>> the customers who don't choose Linux don't choose Linux.... or
>> something?
>>
>> It *must* be a hoax.... mustn't it?
>
> Hehe.
>
> I've received the same salesdroid speel myself, and so have friends when
> looking for Linux netbooks at the local superstore.
>
> It's all spurted out like a mantra, and each of us had to *insist* they
> produce a Linux netbook from their stores so we could buy one.
Staple is now a victim of the same type of indoctrination too.
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