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Microsoft Bribes Again?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Nov 1, 2008

“But, if as appears may be the case Microsoft is letting people
have Dell XPS M1330 laptops with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processors and
3GBs of RAM on ‘indefinite loans (wink, wink) then it’s a bribe in
my book. What do you think? If you knew someone had been given a PC
with a list price of $1,956 and then wrote nice things about the
operating system that came with it would you be inclined to think
that they might be just a wee bit influenced by the almost two
grand worth of computer?”

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