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Getting a PC pre-loaded with Windows is not being "blackmailed" inot using Windows. Maybe it's too late to break the monopoly. The rest of the OS world should have woken up earlier and done something way back when instead of quibbling about it now. It wasn't user friendly then, and they didn't market to the average schmoe - because they didn't expect the average schmoe to be using computers on such a scale as it turned out they would. Maybe they should have had a little more foresight than they did. But I'm not blaming them - sometimes things just explode in unexpected ways .Hell - M$ nearly missed the internet revolution and they haven't caught up yet.
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