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Microsoft doing T.V adverts for Windows?
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Posted: 2008-11-28 02:10:24
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Yep and thats buying windows
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Posted: 2008-11-28 06:52:06
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how many people actually "buy" Windows?
btw Is it just me or have all the PC/Lappy adverts on TV gone back to being advertised as having Windows XP? Definetly the ones from PC World.
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Posted: 2008-11-28 14:44:13
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On 2008-11-28 14:44:13, HornyNick wrote:
how many people actually "buy" Windows?
Every time that you purchase a new notebook or pre-assembled PC, you're shelling a hundred-odd bucks on a valid serial # that allows you to use Windows.
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Posted: 2008-11-28 14:47:47
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My point was you dont really have much choice.
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Posted: 2008-11-28 14:59:52
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Well, it's a bit like the ads they do for Royal Mail and the Post office, it's more to make them feel good about themselves really, rather than offering you a product you actually cant get elsewhere
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Posted: 2008-11-28 15:04:02
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On 2008-11-28 14:59:52, HornyNick wrote:
My point was you dont really have much choice.
i got my laptop preinstalled with ubuntu
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Posted: 2008-11-28 21:10:26
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Smacks of desperation TBH, maybe the profusion of umpc`s with linux preinstalled and ultra low prices have made some very small inroads into ms profit margins?? Very few big name pc manufacturers ship pc`s "clean" with no os and when they show a % that have sold like this ms hassle them as to why they are selling them without their software on them (this happened to Dell a while back), so even when you excercise choice there are consequences
If you watch the tv ad`s for pcworld they are now offering "phone/help/tech supp" addons for something like £80!!!! what a bargain........not, ring in with your problem and get help from some spotty teenager who`s pc knowledge extends as far as "fitting a hard drive for a mate" and "pwning"on CS, its a ripoff and is there purely to spin money from an already saturated market.
The sooner a certain companies stranglehold on the software market is broken the better for all of us (cheaper too)
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Posted: 2008-11-28 21:46:55
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On 2008-11-28 21:46:55, streetgang wrote:
Some spotty teenager who`s pc knowledge extends as far as "fitting a hard drive for a mate"
and breaking it in the process
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Posted: 2008-11-28 22:20:48
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