Only Microsoft would try something like this...
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From Miami Herald: Microsoft Drops Alternate Windows Name
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. has agreed to change the name of a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system after European regulators balked at the company's original choice.
The name "Windows XP Reduced Media Edition" will be dropped, said Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake. She said the company is still working with the European Union on a suitable alternative.
EU officials had complained about the originally proposed name.
Complying with an EU antitrust order, Microsoft has said it will soon send computer manufacturers a version of Windows without the company's multimedia player.
From Miami Herald: Microsoft Drops Alternate Windows Name
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. has agreed to change the name of a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system after European regulators balked at the company's original choice.
The name "Windows XP Reduced Media Edition" will be dropped, said Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake. She said the company is still working with the European Union on a suitable alternative.
EU officials had complained about the originally proposed name.
Complying with an EU antitrust order, Microsoft has said it will soon send computer manufacturers a version of Windows without the company's multimedia player.
What's not noted here is that they were going to sell both versions for the same price. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next name come out as "Windows XP Edition (without some of the stuff we normally put in there because the EU made us take it out but we'll still charge you the same price and then complain when consumers don't buy it and try to make the point that buyers really don't care in the long run) Version 1...
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So while the European comission is getting pretty upset, that M$ is ignoring them -- because they clearly said: offer an alternative (which includes respective pricing and marketing once you apply common sense).
The US lawyers get irritated by the European comission, because they do what they have been asked for and exercise their creativity for the unwritten part.,
Just compare American Football and European Soccer (both size of the rule book and flow of the game).
I like the common sense approach better (but being European I'm biased).
Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 09:25:52 On 01/02/2005 | - Website - |