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Re:Vista Is Good by axod on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @06:01PM (#202679)
Purchased ;) heh.. it was forced on a public who didn't want it. Do you really think that if Vista was not preloaded onto computers, just XP, that people would have actually gone out and bought Vista still?

Anyway... I think I'll sit the next round of this out. O/S wars are so over.

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Re:Vista Is Good by mattmaroon on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @06:23PM (#202702)
No, I don't think that would generally happen. Clearly some people would buy the OS on its own (I did, anyone building a high-end computer now might).

But I don't think that about any operating systems. I don't know what percentage of OS licenses come with hardware, but it has to be pretty mammoth.

And I don't think it's clear at all that the public doesn't want it.

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