[ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....

[Christopher Swift]

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Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 01/06/09 11:14, James Milligan wrote:
> <snip />
>> I can't believe they've done that!
> 
> Why?
> 
> Microsoft have lots of money and can pay companies whatever they want to 
> do what Microsoft asks them too. It isn't so hard to grok is it?
> 
> All these ads that say "PC Vendor X Recommends Winblows Vista Home 
> Premium" etc. Do you *really* think that PC vendor X believes that? 
> Nope. Me neither. But if you were given enough money you'd say pretty 
> much anything...
> 
> I think though, the interesting thing in all this is that MS are 
> actually having to do it at all.
> 
> It goes to show just how much pressure they are under. XP is virtually 
> dead. Windows 7 for netbooks will be lobotomised and severely crippled.
> 
> Once You start getting some decent 2nd Gen ARM netbooks on the scene 
> with 8-12hr battery life running UNR just watch what happens ;-)
> 
> 
> Al
Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS
nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign. Really guys do a
whois on the domain name, it is registered by GoDaddy.com for crying out
loud! In all fairness both teams have a better advertising team than
what this website has came to be. The entire website is just one image
and an embedded Flowplayer to play the video! Honestly wouldn't they use
something like Silverlight? Perhaps something like the Hyper-Video part
of Silverlight would be a real plus when mentioning XP direct to the MS
site, when mentioning  the eee, direct to ASUS' site. There isn't even a
single link to asus.com nor microsoft.com neither. In short it looks
like you guys have been ultimately trolled.

Now lets pimp out itsbetterwithubuntu & itsbetterwithlinux .coms!
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Christopher Swift
http://launchpad.net/~chris

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