Comments on: Confirmed: Windows Vista Still Rejected by Customers http://techrights.org/2009/07/01/vista-rejected-by-customers/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2009/07/01/vista-rejected-by-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-68977 twitter Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:48:19 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=14349#comment-68977 The writers of LinuxToday should see <a href="http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1905647" rel="nofollow">your leaked OEM advertising guides</a>. These prove M$ ties mention of their products in advertising to OEM costs for Windows. There's enough material in there for a good anti-trust trail. At this point, I'm not sure why OEMs care about Windows. Vista cost them all sorts of money and it was a key factor in the demise of retailers such as CompUSA, Circuit City and <a href="http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/192886" rel="nofollow">DSG</a>. Their best hope for survival in the recession is to heavily advertise low cost computing and free software. The writers of LinuxToday should see your leaked OEM advertising guides. These prove M$ ties mention of their products in advertising to OEM costs for Windows. There’s enough material in there for a good anti-trust trail.

At this point, I’m not sure why OEMs care about Windows. Vista cost them all sorts of money and it was a key factor in the demise of retailers such as CompUSA, Circuit City and DSG. Their best hope for survival in the recession is to heavily advertise low cost computing and free software.

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