Forcing a person to buy both XP and Vista.
http://www.electriccola.com/dell_chat_support_8.8.07.html
Watch how it ends.
Dell users face heavy premium for Vista
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| Dell’s customers are paying a heavy premium for personal computers running
| Microsoft’s Vista, according to data compiled by ComputerWorld UK's sister
| site Techworld.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/windows/news/index.cfm?newsid=4554
So the following is unsurprising:
Customer satisfaction down among PC buyers
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| Overall, consumers rated their satisfaction with the maker of their PC 3
| percent worse than last year, according to the American Customer Satisfaction
| Index (ACSI), the annual quality study conducted by the University of
| Michigan set for release Tuesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6202366.html
Related:
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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