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Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness"
jcatcw writes "Microsoft has just turned on Reduced Functionality mode, worldwide, and sent a letter to OEMs explaining the consequences of Vista piracy. These include a black screen after 1 hour of browsing, no start menu or task bar, and no desktop. Using fear as a motivator, the email warns resellers to 'make sure your customers always get genuine Windows Vista preinstalled.'"
...why anyone would want to use an OS in which the user can't be the local administrator of a PC that they already own?
I think what the Linux distro people keep forgetting is that the average United States computer user sees something named "Wubi+Kubuntu" and thinks "I'm not supporting any of that foreign nonsense!".
The one exception is probably the Wii, because it is a single syllable and has derogatory connotations.
Personally, one of my turn-offs to some OSS software like OpenOffice.org is that it has '.org' in its name, and it's abbreviation is "OO.o" which looks like a mal-formed price of $0.00, or the thing that certain knight kept saying when trying to say 'Ni'.
Windows doesn't sell on technical merit, it sells on marketing. Apple at least has some technical merit, and fantastic marketing. Linux has technical merit, but really needs some marketing people...That, and remember the confusion of "What version of Office do you have? 'Internet explorer' or 'Windows95'" nonsense and extend that to "What distro of Linux do you have?" (RPMs or apt-get? huh?)
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