Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Oct 2006 17:28 UTC, submitted by Tyr.
"Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista. Acer claims that the Vista Home Basic - the new entry-level Windows - is so poorly featured that consumers will simply reject it. "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all," said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president at Acer. "There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no remote control."
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RE[4]: Re: Same **** different decade
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RE[5]: Re: Same **** different decade
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I was a McSoft systems administrator at a college in New Mexico for six years. Servers and workstations out the ....
The only McSoft products that were not bulky were DOS, Win 3.1(1) and maybe NT4 depending on how you view it.
In an attempt to be the all-in-all they became a monstrosity operating platform. I'm sure that upsets the McSoft fan boys but who cares. The future is based on *nix-styled operating systems.