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Microsoft Sued Over Vista-To-XP Downgrade Fees
Krojack writes with this excerpt from Computerworld:
"Los Angeles resident Emma Alvarado charged Microsoft with multiple violations of Washington state's unfair business practices and consumer protection laws over its policy of barring computer makers from continuing to offer XP on new PCs after Vista's early-2007 launch. Alvarado is seeking compensatory damages and wants the case declared a class-action suit. ... Irked at having to pay a fee for downgrading a new Lenovo notebook to XP, Alvarado said that Microsoft had used its position as the dominant operating system maker to 'require consumers to purchase computers pre-installed with the Vista operating system and to pay additional sums to "downgrade" to the Windows XP operating system.'"
Actually, what you are suggesting is very odd!
The suit has been canceled after Emma Alvarado was abducted by a mysterious, well-organized, group of mosquitoes. When asked for a comment on the strange occurrence, Bill Gates is said to have laughed awkwardly while pressing his fingertips together. More on this as it develops.
You must be new around here!!
Or, just a callow youth.
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
People keep trying to use...
If (cake.have) then eat(cake);
This of course fails because everyone knows...
#define cake=LIE;
Windows is just a pane...
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
You guys are all smoking crack with these bad car analogies.
It's like Ford is Baby Jesus, Chrysler is 3 rabbis, and AMC is a scorpion.
So baby Jesus is born. The 3 rabbis are standing around, praising the event. This scorpion comes walking up...but the first rabbi throws his shoe at it. The scorpion takes off. About an hour later, the scorpion comes back. The scorpion almost makes it to baby Jesus, but the second rabbi throws a shoe at it. The scorption takes off. About an hour later, the scorpion comes back again! This time, the 3rd rabbi walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender says, "that's cool, where'd you get that?" The parrot flies out of the freezer and replies, "may i ask what the turkey did?"
That's how I read it anyway.
THL phish sticks
All of the machines on lenovo.com make it very clear which operating system they have installed.
Unlike somewhere else where you can buy Ubuntu by mistake ;-)
Yeah... Microsoft pulled an Obama, big time.
Microsoft DELIBERATELY released a KNOWN-BAD operating system. Why? To make more money.
Anybody want to buy a peanut factory?