This weekend I came face to face with one of the real reason Vista sales have been flagging: My 18-year-old son and I could barely set up a new Vista machine for my 80-something father. If two techies struggle to get Vista working, Microsoft is in... ...full story at digg
from digg on Wed, Apr 30 2008
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