BoyOfDestiny
December 28th, 2006, 06:28 AM
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4598924090.html
Want to know why Microsoft has so many people saying good things about it, despite endless security problems, high-prices, product lock-in, and a big-brother attitude towards using their products? They bribe people.
Microsoft blogger Long Zheng tells us that he and many other bloggers, from the "A-list to Z-list," received an early Christmas present: Acer's Ferrari laptops.
Zheng says his Ferrari 5000 came with an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core 2GHz CPU, 2GB of DDR2-667 RAM, AMD-ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics, and a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD. It also has a 160GB SATA drive, HD-DVD reader and burner, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It arrived, of course, pre-loaded with Vista. Not bad, eh, for $2,299 -- or, if you're a blogger that Microsoft wants to influence, free!
Well uh, not too surprising I guess?
Want to know why Microsoft has so many people saying good things about it, despite endless security problems, high-prices, product lock-in, and a big-brother attitude towards using their products? They bribe people.
Microsoft blogger Long Zheng tells us that he and many other bloggers, from the "A-list to Z-list," received an early Christmas present: Acer's Ferrari laptops.
Zheng says his Ferrari 5000 came with an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core 2GHz CPU, 2GB of DDR2-667 RAM, AMD-ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics, and a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD. It also has a 160GB SATA drive, HD-DVD reader and burner, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It arrived, of course, pre-loaded with Vista. Not bad, eh, for $2,299 -- or, if you're a blogger that Microsoft wants to influence, free!
Well uh, not too surprising I guess?