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Story: Windows 7 unlikely to cause leap in PC sales

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Vista users ripped off? What about the rest?

All Microsoft users are being ripped off. It has always been thus.

Check out MS's licensing model around SharePoint or Exchange Server. It's a bloody scandal. A strategy of platform locking, stack dependency and CAL-hell means the customer always gets screwed.

The only reason why people might upgrade to Win7 is to keep the security patching / anti-virus plates spinning. There are few functional reasons to do so.

There are plenty of alternatives you know. Ignorance is one thing but if you don't even bother to look for alternatives you _deserve_ to get ripped off by your incumbent supplier.

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