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____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 Dec 2009 20:40 : \____
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> Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:18:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> | Hewlett-Packard also did something yesterday, | albeit very quietly.
>>
>> Quietly behind the scenes, in dark corners out of earshot, that's how
>> Microsoft operates.
>>
>> Brilliant at covert monopoly maintenance, terrible at actually making
>> real products.
>>
>>> HP removed Linux entirely | from the part of their website where they
>>> sell | netbooks. The day Windows 7 became available | the HP Mi
>>> interface appears to have died a | quiet death. A visit to the HP Mini
>>> pages | reveals that HP is only offering "genuine" | Windows 7 and
>>> "genuine" Windows XP. I also | noticed that the HP Mini 110 also sports
>>> a new, | higher starting price, a full US $25 more than | when I ordered
>>> mine earlier this month. I have | to assume the Windows license is part
>>> of the | higher price.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://ever-increasing-entropy.blogspot.com/2009/10/amazing-coincidence-
>> or-something-more.html
>>
>>
>
> This is hardly surprising - Microsoft are in all kinds of trouble,
> desperately trying to push Windows into a world which cares not one jot
> about it.
>
> Personally, I'm looking for Genuine Linux on my purchases. Genuine
> Windows can stay back in the Genuine Shop, where it can do the least
> damage.
Financially, Vista 7 is already proving problematic to them. In the last quarter, Windows
revenue was down 40% as the Windows /margins/ decline considerably (due to Linux).
Microsoft has given more free copies of Windows last year than ever before.
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