Have you used a WiFi enabled microsoft device lately? I have. I got suckered into buying the HP iPaq 1950 with Wifi, bluetooth... etc.
Without being long-winded, the technology just isn't there. The iPaq (with Windows Mobile 5) freezes up constantly (have to take out the battery to restart it). The handheld web browser only supports a small SMALL subset of Java (it basically has no Java support at all). In addition to that, even with the screen turned sideways, browsing the internet (especially the CSS enabled internet) is a nightmare!
Having used an iPaq, I will bet that the rumor of MS releasing a handheld this christmas is exactly that: a rumor. The technology just isn't there yet.
Since sentencing hadn't yet occurred (scheduled for Oct 23rd), he and his family were still quite rich (note in TFA that he was on vacation in Aspen). Now, all of his wealth has just transferred to his family, who, obviously, isn't liable for crimes that he committed.
How fucking convenient.
I see a lengthy trial to try and get some of that money back to the people who rightfully deserve it, but I don't see it ending in anything positive.
Yeah, we really should deregulate the internet. After all, that worked SOOOOO well for the California energy market. That really helped consumers!! The large energy companies didn't manipulate the market to raise the price of energy!! Nope! Customers ALWAYS get what's best when large companies compete!! Yup!!
With the whole debate over Net Neutrality, I really wonder whether or not we have already forgotten the lessons of Enron. Enron, like the big telcos, pushed hard to get the California energy market deregulated, under the banner that deregulation would help the consumer. And the large telcos seem to be parroting that same message. Are you really naive enough to believe that any corporation would push this hard on anything that wouldn't be hugely profitable for them? They aren't concerned about the consumer, they are trying to raise the bottom line!
When businesses get as big as the major telcos, deregulation is a huge risk. If anything, the government should be taking a closer look at their operation. Of course, that assumes that the government isn't corrupt, and lately, that seems like a big assumption.
You might be right, if it was just the rootkit thing that people were upset about. There's more to it than that.
A lot of gamers have negative feelings toward Sony due to the blatant disregard for customers shown by Sony Online Entertainment. The time between the PS2 launch and the PS3 launch saw the birth of two of the most infamous MMOs on the market. Sony captivated gamers with Everquest, and then tried to take advantage of them with overpriced, buggy crapfests subsequently released and marketed on the stringth of EQ1. Specifically, I'm talking about EverQuest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. In gaming circles, Sony lost a lot of credibility there.
Then add the rootkit fiasco on top of that.
And for me, add a broken-within-6-months-of-purchase PS2 that would have cost more to repair than to replace.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see a repeat of the enron power fiasco in California?
In that situation, Enron pushed and pushed to let free markets dictate the price of power. Under a banner of "deregulation" they wanted to take control of the energy market to maximize their own profits.
Is this not what the telcos are asking for? They seem to be arguing that more government regulation will harm the consumer, when in fact, it appears that more government regulation is necessary to protect the consumer.
I think that if the telcos get their way, and are allowed to start "trading" on bandwidth, then we're headed for another enron. I don't mean that the telcos will start Enron's sketchy accounting practices, but rather that they will start manipulating the bandwidth market the way that Enron was manipulating California's energy market.
My server just lost a ton of people too (Warsong). It probably has more to do with paid realm transfers than with an actual loss of subscribers.
Nonetheless, I do see a decline in new subscribers for WoW. I hope that they're diligently working on a sequel, and not just on the expansion scheduled for later this year.
Personally, if I had time for more than one MMO, I probably would have switched already. As it is, I've invested so much time building a decent character in WoW that I don't want to lose it all by starting over in another MMO. Needless to say, I've already preordered my copy of Burning Crusade.
"So, what would be the rush? Is MS going to try to get people in Europe arrested for pirating their software? Yeah, I'm sure the EU will get right on that. They'd probably revoke all of MS's trademarks, copyright, and patents in Europe, making Windows source code available freely"
The rush wouldn't be for home computers, it would be for business computers. Businesses can't just up and switch to linux. Businesses have layers and layers of security that are built upon microsoft software. I will never argue that that's a good foundation to build upon, but it's a moot point, because the structure is already there. It would take years to rebuild the european business systems that rely upon microsoft.
Furthermore, if MS stopped supporting European businesses, it would be incredibly harmful to the european economy (if not causing an all-out crash).
For instance, say that MS didn't allow European IPs to download their latest patch. Before long, this would lead to massive system instability. Viruses and spyware would eat European infrastructure alive and businesses would be, at least temporarily, crippled.
Yep, microsoft made a crappy product, but everyone bought or pirated it and now we're stuck with it. Like I have said before, get over it. Market forces will work this out.
A company like microsoft employs a ton of europeans. These europeans, in turn, spend their money (made from microsoft) in europe (go figure). No european country will EVER seize a dime's worth of microsoft's property. PERIOD. Seizing microsoft's european assets would only hurt the european economy, and hurt europeans (by making them unemployed).
Not to mention the fact that it would be a huge foreign relations fiasco.
"When you grow up you'll realize that there are other countries, legal systems, and ways of looking at things than the US's"
True, the world is made up of many different legal systems, but in the case of international businesses, they all have to work together. In the long run, microsoft's monopoly is a minor stumbling block, but if the EU followed your suggestion and seized "all of MS's European assets" then that would essentially amount to an embargo (which might not look that great, in the rest of the world's eyes).
The EU is powerless here. Get over it; market forces are easing back microsoft's monopoly anyway.
WOW!!! A Mac + Nintendo merger would be revolutionary!!! It would be like if AOL merged with Time Warner!!! AOL + Time Warner would be an unimaginable force in the new media of the new millenium!!!! Mac + Nintendo could be even bigger!!!!
This article is so stupid. I assume that it's only purpose is to give us all painful flashbacks to the mid-90s, before AOL merged with Time Warner. This merger would be as useless as that one, as many have pointed out already.
Anyone have a good slashback article from the mid-90s talking about how awesome AOL/Time Warner will be?
Your argument is flawed, because the broad base of knowledge that you get in school IS useful in almost every field imaginable. In fact, even the example you give is incorrect.
for example vectors are a must for 3D graphics, but quite not for a music composer
Vectors aren't used in Rock and Roll, perhaps, but if a student actually spends a few semesters studying music theory, and post-tonal theory, they will discover that mathematical concepts such as vectors are commonplace. In post-tonal theory, Interval Vectors are used as representations of clusters of tones. In other words, to a rock guitarist, C and G may be two totally different chords, however, to a post-tonal theorist, they might be the same. A post tonal theorist would see the pitches of a C Major as c-e-g or as interval vector 001110. G Major would have the pitches g-b-d, but the same interval vector!
I have posted your post almost word-for-word on multiple occasions over the past few weeks.
I don't think this price thing is going to hurt Sony as much as rootkitgate and SWG#$@%$^#$@%# (I still have no verbally communicable name for that fiasco... even 3 years after the fact).
The only thing I still buy that has a Sony brand name on it is CDs, and only because I can't avoid it.
I pay extra to buy Sony competitors for every other product. Headphones, digital cameras... etc.
Regarding your question about Sony videogames, their record isn't good.
They pioneered the MMOG, in a significant way, with Everquest, but since then, they seem to be dedicated to destroying valuable intellectual properties.
Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) was one of the most hyped games of all time. As the first Sony follow-up to EverQuest, with one of the best SciFi properties out there, EVERYONE expected this game to be great. The pre-launch registered users who contributed to the SWG forums daily was ridiculously high. Every gamer was desparate for info about SWG because it just looked so hot. Sony bragged on and on about all the features the game would have: you could occupy any planet, play any race, take up a multitude of professions, buy a starship, go into politics... etc.
Well, as the launch date approached, strange things started to happen. First, the features that were cut were small. I think the first thing that was cut was owning property. Everyone said, ok, you won't be able to buy a house at launch, but with all the other features, who cares? Then came the deluge.
Amid a sea of rabidly eager fans, Sony cut the feature list in half about a month before launch. Needless to say, the release was a fiasco. Even the features that were left in were buggy, and the development team was slow to react.
The impression from the Dev team was: the higher-ups forced us to release a product that wasn't ready yet, just to get the revenue flowing. So the game was stagnant; eventually they fixed a lot of the bugs, and the addons added some of the features that were left out, but by then it was too late. Now the game is all but dead.
Outside of the MMOG arena, Sony has been similarly unsuccessful; they have some great licensed games (God of War, GTA), but the games developed in-house tend to be god-awful crapfests (imho).
I also boycott Sony products btw, but more as a response to SWG, EQ2, and rootkitgate than anything else.
You make a good point. The $600 price tag could be a business savvy move for $ony. Even if only the early adopters buy P$3s at their intro price, that might be enough to cause the normal shortages.
I think that the general concern is that early adopters aren't as wealthy as $ony thinks they are. That even early adopters will see $750 (for P$3, extra controller and 2 games) as not worth it when the same package on the 360 will cost $475 at that point.
You prove that this is a likely outcome with the last line of your post:
In the meantime, I'll be enjoying the Wii and the 360 this holiday season.
This estimate is ridiculously high. The WoW team is killing the game with this type of thinking; they seem to believe that WoW is supported by people who treat WoW as a lifestyle more than just WoW as a game.
My clan runs BWL a few times a week, and a high level raid every night, HOWEVER, the same players go to every raid. Every 40 man raid is compiled from the same pool of about 55 players that do raids. The rest of the guild rarely, if ever, takes part in these long extravaganzas. In fact, most people might have time for a strat/scholo/ubrs run (2hours-ish) once a week. The people that have time for 6 hour marathon sessions are the exception rather than the rule.
If the WoW team doesn't give some development time to players who can only play about an hour a night, they risk losing a big part of their fanbase, and wacky estimates like this just contribute to that problem.
With the list of games that GameTap original touted, I thought that the service had no chance of success. Yeah, the first few tomb raiders are worth a play, and the original Splinter Cell is pretty decent too. The sega genesis titles weren't bad either, but overall, the list of titles was quite underwhelming.
To top it off, the only appeal of the service was nostalgia. In other words, only people who had played the games in their youth would really want to revisit them for a monthly fee. And the final piece to the puzzle is the fact that, for people who had played the games before (like me), playing through every worthwhile title would take at most one month. Hence, I thought that few people would pay $15/mo for one month's worth of content and GameTap would flop within a few months.
With the addition of these two new titles, I see the service as much more appealing. The Sam and Max games were possibly the best LucasArts games ever, and for people already addicted to multiplayer online games, Uru has a lot of appeal just because it isn't a fantasy MMO or another FPS.
Now I'm scared that I may have to give in to the call of GameTap.
Who owns GameTap again? Is it Turner? I just want to make sure it isn't $ony (and the link is blocked for me at work).
nubcakes, get out of school and into the real world for a few months.... then I'd like to see you say this.
I have a CS degree from the University of Rochester. I worked on a bunch of mentally challenging, but low paying research / robotics projects after college. It was very 'hard' CS work, but I wanted a car, so I got a high paying job in business.
Now, I program a huge order entry system in COBOL.
The problem isn't that writing an order entry system is hard; there's nothing technically difficult about it. The problem is that the order entry system a lot of businesses use has been in place for 50 years. So you aren't writing it from scratch.
That wouldn't even be that hard.... if COBOL was an object oriented language.
Sadly, there is no standard for object oriented COBOL, and so the code you end up working with is absolute spaghetti. The code base is so big that you can't go back and re-engineer the entire system. In fact, you can't even trace the execution of single program, much less the interaction of the hundreds of programs that your order entry system relies on.
Because of the sheer size of the problem (read: legacy code), and because programmers are always under tight deadlines, the goal of programmers in these situations is just to get the code working and get it in there. There isn't time to make it perfect. There just isn't.
So the problem just gets worse and worse and worse until....
There are better companies/projects/systems out there. There ARE well-organized order entry systems and I'm sure that somewhere, there are programmers that have well-defined specifications. But in the world of business, where the bottom line is the most important thing, coding can be a much bigger headache than you might realize.
The thing that angers me is that in World of Warcraft, it takes a long time to legitimately make 200g. If you only have 1-2 hours of play time a night, and enough time for a raid or two on the weekends, then making 200g takes around 2 weeks.
In my opinion, that's a pretty serious amount of effort.
Yet, 200g can get you nothing worthwhile. You can't buy any items that are 'good' to a 60 character for anything less than 450g!
Hence, if you have 200g, you might as well have 10g for all the good it's going to do you. That is the effect of gold farming; it makes significant amounts of currency seem valueless since players with real money can just go online and instantly have however much they need.
In addition, it makes crafting virtually pointless. I mean, the cenarion patterns are great, but you can't get a good price for Rare items when Epic items can be bought for farmed gold.
Unless accompanied by a price break, this is a mistake.
This will only affect small businesses who license some microsoft software for every computer, and license other microsoft software for one computer then use it on every computer.
Those small businesses will now be forced to pay more than they can afford in order to keep using the microsoft suite of software.
In other words, small businesses will be looking for a cheaper alternative to microsoft titles that "phone home", and imo, certain open source titles are ready for business use.
Hence, the only thing I see this doing is reducing the microsoft market share, which might be a good thing for the world at large, but it will be a bad thing for microsoft.
They'll take credit for 802.11b and 64-bit Intel chips?! Well, why not take the nVidia chipset, and for that matter, why not just take every videogame that uses it?! I mean, if you distribute the most of something, then you must get 'credit' for it!
I am really looking forward to Dell-WoW, an affordable version of WoW that has good customer support!
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I mean, that's a pretty broad generalization. That's basically saying that "only puzzle games will be any good from here on out".
Riiiight.
Personally, I think there is plenty of innovation left in combat games. I mean, the Wii sword fighting game seems to be a step in a new direction.
Without being long-winded, the technology just isn't there. The iPaq (with Windows Mobile 5) freezes up constantly (have to take out the battery to restart it). The handheld web browser only supports a small SMALL subset of Java (it basically has no Java support at all). In addition to that, even with the screen turned sideways, browsing the internet (especially the CSS enabled internet) is a nightmare!
Having used an iPaq, I will bet that the rumor of MS releasing a handheld this christmas is exactly that: a rumor. The technology just isn't there yet.
Since sentencing hadn't yet occurred (scheduled for Oct 23rd), he and his family were still quite rich (note in TFA that he was on vacation in Aspen). Now, all of his wealth has just transferred to his family, who, obviously, isn't liable for crimes that he committed.
How fucking convenient.
I see a lengthy trial to try and get some of that money back to the people who rightfully deserve it, but I don't see it ending in anything positive.
With the whole debate over Net Neutrality, I really wonder whether or not we have already forgotten the lessons of Enron. Enron, like the big telcos, pushed hard to get the California energy market deregulated, under the banner that deregulation would help the consumer. And the large telcos seem to be parroting that same message. Are you really naive enough to believe that any corporation would push this hard on anything that wouldn't be hugely profitable for them? They aren't concerned about the consumer, they are trying to raise the bottom line!
When businesses get as big as the major telcos, deregulation is a huge risk. If anything, the government should be taking a closer look at their operation. Of course, that assumes that the government isn't corrupt, and lately, that seems like a big assumption.
A lot of gamers have negative feelings toward Sony due to the blatant disregard for customers shown by Sony Online Entertainment. The time between the PS2 launch and the PS3 launch saw the birth of two of the most infamous MMOs on the market. Sony captivated gamers with Everquest, and then tried to take advantage of them with overpriced, buggy crapfests subsequently released and marketed on the stringth of EQ1. Specifically, I'm talking about EverQuest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. In gaming circles, Sony lost a lot of credibility there.
Then add the rootkit fiasco on top of that.
And for me, add a broken-within-6-months-of-purchase PS2 that would have cost more to repair than to replace.
Yup, now I boycott Sony. I can't afford not to.
In that situation, Enron pushed and pushed to let free markets dictate the price of power. Under a banner of "deregulation" they wanted to take control of the energy market to maximize their own profits.
Is this not what the telcos are asking for? They seem to be arguing that more government regulation will harm the consumer, when in fact, it appears that more government regulation is necessary to protect the consumer.
I think that if the telcos get their way, and are allowed to start "trading" on bandwidth, then we're headed for another enron. I don't mean that the telcos will start Enron's sketchy accounting practices, but rather that they will start manipulating the bandwidth market the way that Enron was manipulating California's energy market.
Nonetheless, I do see a decline in new subscribers for WoW. I hope that they're diligently working on a sequel, and not just on the expansion scheduled for later this year.
Personally, if I had time for more than one MMO, I probably would have switched already. As it is, I've invested so much time building a decent character in WoW that I don't want to lose it all by starting over in another MMO. Needless to say, I've already preordered my copy of Burning Crusade.
Face it, Slashdot is to Sony what Fox is to Democrats. Not exactly fair and balanced.
The rush wouldn't be for home computers, it would be for business computers. Businesses can't just up and switch to linux. Businesses have layers and layers of security that are built upon microsoft software. I will never argue that that's a good foundation to build upon, but it's a moot point, because the structure is already there. It would take years to rebuild the european business systems that rely upon microsoft.
Furthermore, if MS stopped supporting European businesses, it would be incredibly harmful to the european economy (if not causing an all-out crash).
For instance, say that MS didn't allow European IPs to download their latest patch. Before long, this would lead to massive system instability. Viruses and spyware would eat European infrastructure alive and businesses would be, at least temporarily, crippled.
Yep, microsoft made a crappy product, but everyone bought or pirated it and now we're stuck with it. Like I have said before, get over it. Market forces will work this out.
A company like microsoft employs a ton of europeans. These europeans, in turn, spend their money (made from microsoft) in europe (go figure). No european country will EVER seize a dime's worth of microsoft's property. PERIOD. Seizing microsoft's european assets would only hurt the european economy, and hurt europeans (by making them unemployed).
Not to mention the fact that it would be a huge foreign relations fiasco.
"When you grow up you'll realize that there are other countries, legal systems, and ways of looking at things than the US's"
True, the world is made up of many different legal systems, but in the case of international businesses, they all have to work together. In the long run, microsoft's monopoly is a minor stumbling block, but if the EU followed your suggestion and seized "all of MS's European assets" then that would essentially amount to an embargo (which might not look that great, in the rest of the world's eyes).
The EU is powerless here. Get over it; market forces are easing back microsoft's monopoly anyway.
The Thief series defined immersive gameplay, and the cutscenes were the best in any game ever. Period.
Not a bad album either, if you're into odd electronic music.
This article is so stupid. I assume that it's only purpose is to give us all painful flashbacks to the mid-90s, before AOL merged with Time Warner. This merger would be as useless as that one, as many have pointed out already.
Anyone have a good slashback article from the mid-90s talking about how awesome AOL/Time Warner will be?
for example vectors are a must for 3D graphics, but quite not for a music composer
Vectors aren't used in Rock and Roll, perhaps, but if a student actually spends a few semesters studying music theory, and post-tonal theory, they will discover that mathematical concepts such as vectors are commonplace. In post-tonal theory, Interval Vectors are used as representations of clusters of tones. In other words, to a rock guitarist, C and G may be two totally different chords, however, to a post-tonal theorist, they might be the same. A post tonal theorist would see the pitches of a C Major as c-e-g or as interval vector 001110. G Major would have the pitches g-b-d, but the same interval vector!
For more information, see wiki- Interval Vectors.
I don't think this price thing is going to hurt Sony as much as rootkitgate and SWG#$@%$^#$@%# (I still have no verbally communicable name for that fiasco ... even 3 years after the fact).
The only thing I still buy that has a Sony brand name on it is CDs, and only because I can't avoid it.
I pay extra to buy Sony competitors for every other product. Headphones, digital cameras ... etc.
Ok, the world is upside down. And Alan Turing is rolling in his grave. With laughter, that is.
They pioneered the MMOG, in a significant way, with Everquest, but since then, they seem to be dedicated to destroying valuable intellectual properties.
Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) was one of the most hyped games of all time. As the first Sony follow-up to EverQuest, with one of the best SciFi properties out there, EVERYONE expected this game to be great. The pre-launch registered users who contributed to the SWG forums daily was ridiculously high. Every gamer was desparate for info about SWG because it just looked so hot. Sony bragged on and on about all the features the game would have: you could occupy any planet, play any race, take up a multitude of professions, buy a starship, go into politics ... etc.
Well, as the launch date approached, strange things started to happen. First, the features that were cut were small. I think the first thing that was cut was owning property. Everyone said, ok, you won't be able to buy a house at launch, but with all the other features, who cares? Then came the deluge.
Amid a sea of rabidly eager fans, Sony cut the feature list in half about a month before launch. Needless to say, the release was a fiasco. Even the features that were left in were buggy, and the development team was slow to react.
The impression from the Dev team was: the higher-ups forced us to release a product that wasn't ready yet, just to get the revenue flowing. So the game was stagnant; eventually they fixed a lot of the bugs, and the addons added some of the features that were left out, but by then it was too late. Now the game is all but dead.
Outside of the MMOG arena, Sony has been similarly unsuccessful; they have some great licensed games (God of War, GTA), but the games developed in-house tend to be god-awful crapfests (imho).
I also boycott Sony products btw, but more as a response to SWG, EQ2, and rootkitgate than anything else.
I think that the general concern is that early adopters aren't as wealthy as $ony thinks they are. That even early adopters will see $750 (for P$3, extra controller and 2 games) as not worth it when the same package on the 360 will cost $475 at that point.
You prove that this is a likely outcome with the last line of your post:
In the meantime, I'll be enjoying the Wii and the 360 this holiday season.
My clan runs BWL a few times a week, and a high level raid every night, HOWEVER, the same players go to every raid. Every 40 man raid is compiled from the same pool of about 55 players that do raids. The rest of the guild rarely, if ever, takes part in these long extravaganzas. In fact, most people might have time for a strat/scholo/ubrs run (2hours-ish) once a week. The people that have time for 6 hour marathon sessions are the exception rather than the rule.
If the WoW team doesn't give some development time to players who can only play about an hour a night, they risk losing a big part of their fanbase, and wacky estimates like this just contribute to that problem.
To top it off, the only appeal of the service was nostalgia. In other words, only people who had played the games in their youth would really want to revisit them for a monthly fee. And the final piece to the puzzle is the fact that, for people who had played the games before (like me), playing through every worthwhile title would take at most one month. Hence, I thought that few people would pay $15/mo for one month's worth of content and GameTap would flop within a few months.
With the addition of these two new titles, I see the service as much more appealing. The Sam and Max games were possibly the best LucasArts games ever, and for people already addicted to multiplayer online games, Uru has a lot of appeal just because it isn't a fantasy MMO or another FPS.
Now I'm scared that I may have to give in to the call of GameTap.
Who owns GameTap again? Is it Turner? I just want to make sure it isn't $ony (and the link is blocked for me at work).
I have a CS degree from the University of Rochester. I worked on a bunch of mentally challenging, but low paying research / robotics projects after college. It was very 'hard' CS work, but I wanted a car, so I got a high paying job in business.
Now, I program a huge order entry system in COBOL.
The problem isn't that writing an order entry system is hard; there's nothing technically difficult about it. The problem is that the order entry system a lot of businesses use has been in place for 50 years. So you aren't writing it from scratch.
That wouldn't even be that hard .... if COBOL was an object oriented language.
Sadly, there is no standard for object oriented COBOL, and so the code you end up working with is absolute spaghetti. The code base is so big that you can't go back and re-engineer the entire system. In fact, you can't even trace the execution of single program, much less the interaction of the hundreds of programs that your order entry system relies on.
Because of the sheer size of the problem (read: legacy code), and because programmers are always under tight deadlines, the goal of programmers in these situations is just to get the code working and get it in there. There isn't time to make it perfect. There just isn't.
So the problem just gets worse and worse and worse until ....
There are better companies/projects/systems out there. There ARE well-organized order entry systems and I'm sure that somewhere, there are programmers that have well-defined specifications. But in the world of business, where the bottom line is the most important thing, coding can be a much bigger headache than you might realize.
In my opinion, that's a pretty serious amount of effort.
Yet, 200g can get you nothing worthwhile. You can't buy any items that are 'good' to a 60 character for anything less than 450g!
Hence, if you have 200g, you might as well have 10g for all the good it's going to do you. That is the effect of gold farming; it makes significant amounts of currency seem valueless since players with real money can just go online and instantly have however much they need.
In addition, it makes crafting virtually pointless. I mean, the cenarion patterns are great, but you can't get a good price for Rare items when Epic items can be bought for farmed gold.
This will only affect small businesses who license some microsoft software for every computer, and license other microsoft software for one computer then use it on every computer.
Those small businesses will now be forced to pay more than they can afford in order to keep using the microsoft suite of software.
In other words, small businesses will be looking for a cheaper alternative to microsoft titles that "phone home", and imo, certain open source titles are ready for business use.
Hence, the only thing I see this doing is reducing the microsoft market share, which might be a good thing for the world at large, but it will be a bad thing for microsoft.
I am really looking forward to Dell-WoW, an affordable version of WoW that has good customer support!
what?