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Windows 7: Suckers!

Even by monopolist standards Microsoft is offensive.

According to a recent study by overpaid consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, Windows 7 will “change the personal computer industry forever.”Wow! How else will Windows 7 rock my world? By working trouble free? By preserving my data and ensuring a smooth transition from (yuch) Vista? Even better. Windows 7 will “break the link between the operating system and the hardware upgrade cycle for the first time in history.” 

To clarify, this means that in order to remedy the crappy performance of Vista, users will have to pay top dollar for Windows 7, hope for the best, and there’s a chance that they may not be forced to buy a whole new computer.

How do you guys do it? No, seriously – how do you guys get away with this every year? It’s bad enough that you feed us defective products and sell the fix in your next upgrade, that you treat your users like cattle, that you insult our intelligence by providing buggy software and not owning up to it; but now you’re making a virtue out of doing what you should have done right the first time?

Maybe it’s time for another antitrust suit …