Hey! Asus.
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| Author | Content |
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| tharik May 09, 2008 12:06 PM EDT |
Get your lips off Bill's ass! |
| azerthoth May 09, 2008 12:25 PM EDT |
while the sentiment is shared, the phrasing leaves much to be desired. |
| vainrveenr May 09, 2008 12:39 PM EDT |
A perhaps slightly better image for Asus is it's using its nose, as in
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brownnosing
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/brownnosing At least brown-nosing is the more common term for the likes of Asus's ready compliance with the never-ending MS-Tax. |
| tracyanne May 09, 2008 1:40 PM EDT |
There will be no salvation for Linux from the hardware vendors, they will take Microsoft's bribes and do Microsoft's bidding. Microsoft for their part will give Windows away to the OEMs rather than have them sell Linux. And remember the Windows on these OMPCs is only Windows XP Home, and XP is no longer sold by Microsoft, They are simply keeping XP Home, and probably giving it away, just to keep Windows on as many consumer devices as they can. Actually that $50 more is probably great value, as the Linux machine will come with all the software ypu can poke a stick at, while the Windows machine will be, as usual, in need of after market installs, and purchases, and for all we know comes with Adware and trialware. |
| helios May 11, 2008 7:35 AM EDT |
thinking allowed here, as always... How long would it take someone to hack this box? How long would it take Blog of helios to report the incident and get it published on LXer et al? and CNET And ZDNET And DIGG And YouTube ..... h |
| pat May 11, 2008 3:53 PM EDT |
You got that right Ken. Allowed and aloud is allowed here, BTW. Me, I will be ROFLMAO when the Windows version of these things to be virualized and Asus sees there sales fall. Any one asks me, it will be that the product is defective because of Microsoft Windows. |
| vainrveenr May 13, 2008 3:11 PM EDT |
.....and speaking of ZDNet and possibly-virualized Windows versions, just coincidentally, here is the latest regarding MS's plans for the likes of Asus:
Quoting:Ultra low-cost PCs [such as the EeePC] pose a dilemma for Microsoft and PC manufacturers. Windows Vista won’t run on most–though not all–of them, and it costs too much anyway. But a freely-available, cheap Windows XP might cannibalize sales of traditional budget PCs with the full-priced version of Windows Vista. The narrowly-defined Windows XP extension seems designed to get around those issues, and to prevent Linux from gaining a toehold on the desktop( from ZDNet's 'Microsoft’s plan to block Linux on laptops' at http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=170 ) Besides the crippled & HIGHLY-disabled features that MS will incorporate into the "New XP Lite", these particular "narrowly-defined Windows XP extensions" could additionally be the very target of average virus writers mentioned above. |
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