Founder Technology, China's second biggest PC maker, after Lenovo, is to pre-install Windows Vista on business lines and laptops. Previously, it put Windows only on consumer desktops as a matter of course - about 30 per cent of overall shipments. It looks like Microsoft will plough much of the OEM cash straight back into Founder …
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Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 22:24 GMT
For a minute I though you meant Ballmer had nailed Gates to a mast...
pity
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 22:42 GMT
This amounts to an offence under the Trades Description Act- I wanted to read about Gates being attached by a nail-gun to a flag-pole on the twee place in Redmond.
What I got was an obscure reference to a dancing monkey and some apparent company in a country near to Tartary.
I shall only read the Inq if such disappointment recurs!
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 22:42 GMT
You WILL take this operating system, no matter how much you say you prefer XP.
Microsoft can't even allow Microsoft to compete on an even playing field with Microsoft. How soon before the XP department calls in the DoJ to investigate the Vista department?
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 23:46 GMT
I have to agree.... the reg is beginning to sound more like the Sun every day :( except without the t*ts
I shall only read the Inq if such disappointment recurs!
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 23:48 GMT
I vote we get someone to make an anonymous phone call to the TSA and DHS and tell them that Ballmer is actually a drug mule...
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 00:29 GMT
For some reason, I read the headline as:
"Founder nails balls to Windows mast"
and then expected a story about Bill G going on a bit of a bender.
Taxi!
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 01:11 GMT
"I shall only read the Inq if such disappointment recurs!"
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 01:22 GMT
It's actually the Trade Descriptions Act. Please fucking note where the 's's are.
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 03:53 GMT
Let's hope so... The bumbling idiot is half the problem with Microsoft these days. They'd do well to send him to China permanently.
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 10:42 GMT
Great idea. They've got nuclear weapons, itchy trigger fingers, paranoia and absofuckinglutely no sense of humour. How can this go wrong?
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 13:33 GMT
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR(ammar police)
You sure fucking told them. Cunts.
Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 13:33 GMT
The idea appeals hugely.
There is something riveting about stacking up all the ingredients of a complete disaster and lighting blue touch paper.
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