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Windows 7 'Brain Dead Edition' (aka Starter Edition)
May 2, 2009, 07 :02 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (7835 reads)

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"To follow their thinking to its logical conclusion, what should then happen is that the consumer gets fed up with the lemon they have purchased, and will then give Microsoft even more money to "upgrade" to a non-crippled version of Windows 7 - and in this case it is an even better deal for Microsoft because they certainly will charge the end user a higher price than they would have charged the netbook OEM in the first place, and they don't have to share any of this money with the OEM."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Being critical of MS for creating differ ...   Its hard being too critical   
Arguss
May 3, 2009, 23:44:01
 
And of course that freedom of choice you ...   Re: Its hard being too critical   
Stuart DeGraaf
May 4, 2009, 00:44:29
 
> Being critical of MS for creating diff ...   Re: Its hard being too critical   
Jeff Cobb
May 4, 2009, 03:13:31
 
> Being critical of MS for creating diff ...   Re: Its hard being too critical   
blackhole
May 4, 2009, 09:23:43
 
Being critical of MS for creating differ ...   Easy to Be Critical   
C. Whitman
May 5, 2009, 06:09:44
 
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