Well. If you spend much time in China, you will find out that no matter what box has someone buys, a priated copy of Windows (around 10 RMB = $1.20) will be put on it. Heck, some of the copies I have seen are pretty impressive.
A DVD that has Win98, WinXP, Server 2003 Pro/ENT that you install from an XP look alike menu.
Or even better, one pirating group build a new "version" of XP every ~2 months that have *all* the MS security patches slipstreamed.
I would also guess that MS penetration in China as a % is probably higher than the US or Europe. But it is mostly pirated penetration.
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http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/showcase.aspx?ct Id=17
So, perhaps story should be that a *ux fan got past the products posting filter.
Mine as well.
Ah well, back to some no-name Libertarian.
*shrug* After reading through all the tripe above, I could not help but be in an antagonistic mood.
.. before flying off the deepend of political discourse.
Subsidies are one POLITICAL issue that can be handled separately form the SCIENTIFIC discussion of ethanol.
Ignoring the former to look at the latter..
Berkeley recently did a rather deep paper on ethanol.
Summary here: http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/summary.html
Ifn you can't read and understand that, I highly suggest sticking to political discussions only.
Well. If you spend much time in China, you will find out that no matter what box has someone buys, a priated copy of Windows (around 10 RMB = $1.20) will be put on it. Heck, some of the copies I have seen are pretty impressive.
A DVD that has Win98, WinXP, Server 2003 Pro/ENT that you install from an XP look alike menu.
Or even better, one pirating group build a new "version" of XP every ~2 months that have *all* the MS security patches slipstreamed.
I would also guess that MS penetration in China as a % is probably higher than the US or Europe.
But it is mostly pirated penetration.
If you know the Chinese market, this makes sense for multitudes of reasons.
If for no other than to curry favor with the gov't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
Best 1st post.. Ever.