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Old 11-02-2012, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by WDBCB20 View Post
Bingo bingissimo, there you've almost described the Microsoft business model: a company that makes money off individuals by constantly getting them to upgrade for no good reason.

Windows has been a consumer financed turd polishing exercise from the get go, enabled by Microsoft's monopoly allowed by the government except for when the latter pretended to sue MS for antitrust violations during that phony show trial episode. The Europeans have caught on to Gates' games and are slapping him with real fines in the billions and migrating their government IT off of Bill's bamboozle bonanza.
And Microsoft is a bunch of rank amateurs in the designed obsolescence game, when you compare them to Apple....
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