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Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe
jbeale53 writes "It seems that to install Windows 7 in Europe, you'll have to wipe the system and start over. There will be no ability to upgrade. From the article, 'The unfortunate side effect has been caused by Microsoft's decision to avoid any further EU censure on Windows 7 by removing Internet Explorer 8 from the OS. Because Internet Explorer is so deeply integrated within Vista, it's not currently possible to perform an upgrade that removes IE.' Why would Microsoft cripple it this way? Just to try and point fingers at the European Union? Because the EU didn't tell them to remove IE, they only told them to offer other browsers to be installed during setup."
A fresh install of XP on modern equipment is almost as snappy as Linux.
Good post, up until that point. Savvy users of both Linux and XP know that tweeked XP is much snappier and far more convenient than tweeked Linux if both run the same features and don't do anything stupid. That part of your post smacks of an unfair comparison of a naive virus-running XP porn addict and a savvy Linux tweeker who boots to the console.
XP still trumps Linux on a desktop where people want shit to just work.
Have a spare couple of grand for each of us for the oh-so-glamourous style hardware? Thought not :P