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]: All way off the mark..
by NotParker on Mon 30th Oct 2006 18:11
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For fun, I did a search and it turns out it's about the same amount: a bit over 20.000.
How many of the Linux ones are duplicates? How many different eMacs clones are there ... for example.
Every last one of those Linux packages has a personal caretaker, that makes sure the package integrates well with the entire system.
Ha ha ha ha ha. You MUST be kidding!
There's no spyware in any of the Linux packages.
You've personnally reviewd all the code?
RE[5]: All way off the mark..
by netpython on Mon 30th Oct 2006 18:32
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I'm sure Tucows has more freeware for Windows than that.
For fun, I did a search and it turns out it's about the same amount: a bit over 20.000.
But this doesn't take into account any of the following:
1. Every last one of those Linux packages has a personal caretaker, that makes sure the package integrates well with the entire system. You can't make any assumption about the freeware on Tucows.
2. There's no spyware in any of the Linux packages. Period. Which can't be said for sure about the Tucows kits.
3. If you ever want to upgrade any of the Tucows kits you need to hunt it down and determine on your own whether there's an upgrade available. On Linux, you click a couple of buttons and the system upgrades everything to the latest.