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it's the 'molded into the plastic' issue all over again.

brokndodge@... 17th Apr 2009

the windows masses actually think windows is molded into the plastic. they've never heard of linux and many of them are surprised to find out that macs don't come 'injected' with windows. when they fire up the netbook and can't find a green 'start' button and a blue 'e'. they don't know what to do, figure it must be defective and return it. the same thing happened when walmart offered the $200 linux desktop and the $300 linux laptop. i believe if someone did a real study, we might find the same reasoning behind lagging vista sales. i talked to someone the other day that told me their brand new computer was broken the first time they turned it on. they waited and waited and the start button never appeared. i showed this same person linux xp and they were very happy with it.

truthfully, we are all victims of microsofts success.