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Story: The XP alternative for Vista PCs

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Posted by: ator1940 (Monday 24 September 2007, 2:19 PM)

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Microsoft is requiring large PC makers to stop selling XP-based systems

How is it that a software company can issue orders to independent PC manufacturers? The real losers here are the consumers, having something forced on them that , just maybe, they don't need, or want. Maybe it's time the manufacturers got a little backbone and started selling systems without an OS on them.

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