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Re: [News] Windows Vista: So Bad That Microsoft Might Give it For Free

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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