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Re: [News] Microsoft's 'Hardware Department' Has Vista Upgrade Woes

__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Wednesday 14 February 2007 04:34 \__

> NoStop wrote:
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Dell's "Express Upgrade" to Vista not so "express"
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Dell-using Vista hopefuls are expressing their frustration at
>>> | Dell's continued delays and problems with their Vista upgrades.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
>>
>
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/dells-express-upgrade-to-vista-not-so-express/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dell: the ethical PC dealer.
>>> 
>>> Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
>>> | improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
>>> | according to a media report published Thursday evening.
>>> | 
>>> | [...]
>>> | 
>>> | The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
>>> | a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
>>> | "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
>>> | from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
>>> | according to The Journal.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
>>
>
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
>> 
>> Roy,
>> 
>> You should read microsoft.public.windows.vista.general. What a hoot! :-)
>> People are having mucho fun with Fista. Sure makes using Linux look so
>> much more user-friendly and problem free.
>> 
> 
> 
> When I feel depressed I lurk there and after reading a few messages I feel
> quite a lot better. It's a lot like British humor... once you get the
> dryness of it all, it's quite funny.
> 
> I especially like the helpful MVP's there... "buy a legal copy", "you can't
> do that, read your eula", "You must have done something wrong", "XP is so
> yesterday, upgrade to Vista today"... and my all time favorite, "Did you
> try rebooting it?"...
> 
> Someone should rip it, just for the quotes...

Don't forget "it's the BIOS" (when hardware doesn't work) and "security is a
binary condition" (whenever someone's PC gets pwn3d).

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