What Microsoft are really up to with Vista??

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2009-02-16 09:34
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A recent lawsuit suggests that Microsoft Vista might be a ploy to charge even more for Windows XP. It is not as extreme as my suggestion that Microsoft might have engineered the recession to disguise the productivity impact of Vista. You never know...

According to ComputerWorld,

A Californian woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over a US$59.25 charge for downgrading her Windows Vista PC to XP... Alvarado also is inviting others who have paid fees to downgrade to XP to join the suit and is requesting refunds for them as well... The suit goes on to accuse Microsoft of using its "market power to take advantage of consumer demand for the Windows XP operating system" by requiring people to buy Vista PCs and then charging them to downgrade to the OS they really want.

Works for me.

Published in The Skeptical Informer, February 2009, Volume 3, No. 2


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