Andy Martin of The Committee to Fight Microsoft on Tuesday announced his intentions to block Microsoft from releasing its Windows Vista operating system. Martin intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free of bugs that could result in security vulnerabilities. He argues that no company in America gets away with selling a "defective" product the way Microsoft does.
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"Hard to find computers *not* sold with Windows? There are over 100 Apple Stores as well as an Apple section in every Comp USA."
The problem with Apple and those stores is that they are all only in very large cities; there are only two places in Saskatchewan where I can get Apple hardware, Saskatoon and Regina. Apple rarely advertises it's hardware, and I have yet to see one TV commercial about their OS. Tell my why under those conditions anyone would be surprised to see that Apple only has a miniscule slice of the pie around where I live. Not everyone lives near an Apple store, and Apple doesn't really do much to reach out to people who don't go looking for it first; considering how easy it would be to walk into the local Staples, FutureShop, TheSource, etc... and buy a Wintel PC, I would say Apple hardware and software is hard to find in comparisson.
There is only one Apple Store in Canada that I know about, the rest of the stores that have Apple hardware don't advertise that fact and so few people even know it's there. The last time I saw a Mac around here was when there was one of those G4 iMacs and one iBook at Futureshop, believe me if I had CAD $2200 + tax I would have bought the iMac. Now the only Apple products left in this city are iPods.
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Yeah, nobody's *making* you buy MS products, but it actually takes some effort to find computers *not* sold with Windows preinstalled.
That said, this Andy Martin guy sure is audacious O_o