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Vista Marketing Program Receives Big Complaints

by Luci

Government antitrust attorneys are reportedly still receiving complaints from hardware makers and other companies about Microsoft business practices, even as the software giant has stepped up its efforts to cooperate with those state and federal authorities overseeing its antitrust consent decree.

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All you need are more version names

All you need to fix Microsoft's marketing woes are the right version names for their shiny new OS....

Let me see, there's Windows 7 Starter Professional Home Premium, no, that's Vista Windows 7 Home Starter Basic Live Messenger Premium Ultimate, ....oops, I mean 7 Windows Live Professional Premium Ultimate Business Home Starter.....nope, from the top, there's Windows 95 Me XP Professional Premium Home Basic Server Biztalk, ....uh oh, wrong again, how 'bout Vista 2000 Sharepoint Server Live Vista 7 Windows XP Pro Professional Home Ultimate Starter Business Home Gollum Wombat Ubuntu Server Leopard Adobe Norton Home Premium....

See? Legal problems solved...consumers may be as baffled as ever, but legal problems solved!
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