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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Posted May 12, 2008 23:42 UTC (Mon) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010)In reply to: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) by wilreichert Parent article: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)
Well, there's the ever reliable car analogies. Grandmother may remember GM buying up all the streetcar lines just so they could shut them down. She may even remember the sad case of one Preston Tucker. Go from there.
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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 13, 2008 2:10 UTC (Tue) by rogblake (guest, #18258) [Link] Bad examples. The "GM streetcar conspiracy" is a myth. For example, see: http://1134.org/stan/ul/GM-et-al.html Likewise in the case of Preston Tucker it is not at all clear that the "Big Three" were behind the SEC investigation that killed the company. (Though of course that conspiracy theory is what was portrayed in the 1989 film, "Tucker: The Man and His Dream.")
Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 13, 2008 20:17 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link] Perhaps a more encompassing link that includes several sides of the story would be useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Streetcar_Sca...
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