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Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment I see the problem is that most consumers, especially in the home market, do not realize they have other options. To complicate that, they have probably never used anything besides Microsoft OS going back to DOS 1.25.
[September 28, 2007, 22:46]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment If you have bought Windows OEM or otherwise, you should be able to re-install it on a new computer, as a vitrual machine on the same or a new computer, provided you only use it on one machine at a time.
[September 25, 2007, 15:42]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog You can buy a PC with no OS, with Windows or with Linux, or indeed a Mac with the Mac OS so all such options are available and consumers make the choice already," said a spokesperson, before dropping in a comment that never fails to set off alarm...
[September 25, 2007, 10:54]
Counting The Cost Of Counterfeiting
Talkback I agree with Chris, naked PC's are what I want, but I usually end up building my own if I have time, or buying something with a copy of XP (usually Home), which either gets replaced with XP Pro or more commonly Linux.
[May 23, 2006, 10:14]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback I always buy "naked" systems because I only use linux.maybe the Vendors should have it pointed out that by listening to Microsoft they will lose business, the business they would have gotten by offering the "naked" systems.
[April 6, 2006, 17:48]
X-rated: Getting A Tech Job In The Adult Industry
News I thought the benefit would be that I could hang around with half-naked women all day," says Clinton Alexander, a US-based Web designer who has worked for a number of adult sites, who admits that one of the main reasons why he got involved in the...
[November 22, 2005, 11:30]
Microsoft: You Already Have Naked PCs!
Blog Comment Having worked in tech support in the past I'd hate to be supporting a company that sold naked PCs to the average consumer - the amount of hassle from customers not able to or botching an OS install would be a nightmare.
[September 28, 2007, 10:21]
Jane Wakefield: Naked In Vegas
News There are only so many keynotes -- naked or not -- a girl can take before the lure of the bright lights overwhelms and after Bill and Carly I was just about reaching saturation point. Now, that is naked commerce I can understand.
[November 16, 2000, 9:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He came to some time later with four facts struggling for supremacy in his fogged consciousness: one, that he had been sleepwalking; two, that he was now facing his shut hotel room door; three, from the outside; four, that he was stark naked.
[September 16, 2005, 19:15]
Seductive Virus Has Sobering Consequence
News A blonde, 21-year-old go-go dancer is sending emails with naked photos of herself attached and asking for work as model. She is seeking employment as a model and she says she has attached some naked photos of herself.
[November 19, 2004, 14:15]
VMware Shares Secrets In Security Drive
News The start-up claims that by VMware's own admission, two-thirds of virtualisation users are "running naked". Catbird ran a marketing campaign at the conference warning VMware users about the dangers of "running naked" — paying scant attention to...
[September 17, 2007, 8:46]
Counting The Cost Of Counterfeiting
News Naked PCs are not anything I am really interested in, in the first instance anyway. ZDNet UK recently highlighted the issue of how difficult it is to buy a naked PC -- a machine without an OS installed -- and how Microsoft, and you in particular...
[May 22, 2006, 13:30]
Alienware
Talkback I therefore want to buy a naked system to save myself paying for Vista twice. I'm currently looking to buy a laptop/notebook and have seen a great deal on the Alienware website. I enquired if it would be cheaper to have an older version of windows...
[March 20, 2007, 11:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Aside from that, Microsoft must realise themselves that the main "Business Reason" customers request "naked" PC's is because they probably already have a volume license agreement which would allow them to deploy the PC in their enterprise with...
[April 14, 2006, 19:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The highest form of computing is to find, access and use the most powerful systems on the planet entirely naked, as I am now in fact doing. What is the point of building a mobile phone into my jacket if it means I have to wear that jacket every...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Definition Of Irony? A Teleconference Conference
Blog And I have nothing against Germany either (apart from the T-shirt/Speedo combinations they insist on wearing on the beach - which makes them look naked from the waste down). Thanks--I know it may seem ironic but we will have some speakers and...
[November 26, 2007, 14:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And even if the source code was revealed and I decided to take advantage and launch Winpert XP, Microsoft could have me bang to rights in microseconds -- any use I made of the code itself would stand out like a naked guardsman during the Trooping...
[February 18, 2002, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We hitchhiked back while singing Convoy in one of those huge American 18-wheeler trucks, then burst into a publisher's hotel room and demanded that the naked, terrified man buy us breakfast. But I do miss Las Vegas, even if I no longer have the...
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News We hitchhiked back while singing Convoy in one of those huge American 18-wheeler trucks, then burst into a publisher's hotel room and demanded that the naked, terrified man buy us breakfast. But I do miss Las Vegas, even if I no longer have the...
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
Users Split Over Naked PCs
News Jeremy Wickins, a researcher from Sheffield, wrote: "Sure, I'd like to see a bit more support for Linux flavours (at least the major ones) and anything that irritates Microsoft is just fine by me, but it seems that this idea [selling computers as...
[October 1, 2007, 17:42]
