On 2006-08-12, Donn Miller <hackr_d@xxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>> PC Vendors have *ALWAYS* offered free upgrade coupons in the months before
>> the new OS ships. It happend with XP, it happened Millenium, It happened
>> with 98 and 98SE, and it happened with Windows 95.
>
> I don't recall seeing a Vista upgrade coupon in the box my laptop came
> in. And I bought it last Dec. or January. And I didn't get an upgrade
> coupon with my HP N5440 notebook I bought, a mere weeks before XP came
> out. XP may already have been out at the time.
Erik didn't mean *that* "always". He meant the other "always". The
"always" they employ when they put the coupons in with the hardware.
You know, ALWAYS.
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