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to: Dave Ings
from: Geo
date: 2006-11-30 22:51:28
subject: Re: Vista - obsolete before it ships?

From: "Geo" 

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:456f069e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> From the same URL ... it seems to me MS is going to "reap monopoly
profits"
> on most shipped PCs (modulo Linux) whether or not those PCs have XP or
Vista
> preloaded. So in what sense does Vista contribute anything to MS's bottom
> line?
>
> Press articles all seem to repeat this piont of view ... I just don't get
> it.

Obviously, the copyprotect features are going to end piracy and Microsoft
is going to sell 50% more copies.

Geo.

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