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[News] [Rival] Dell Screws Customers Who Refuse Windows Vista

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Dell Screws Customers Who Refuse Windows Vista
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:30 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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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