[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by vbnmu

I have been reading around and saw this article. Am not sure if i get it right, but it seems like some people buyin their pc in the next couple of months might get a copy of Vista free when it finaly comes out.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...ssupgrade.mspx

Prolly only gonna be available to ppl being top spec machines off HP, Dell et al

Just another marketing ploy.

Besides so many of us are still happily running windows 98 on old machines or have converted old machines to run lightweight OS's like Damn Small Linux etc

Microsoft needs to move those ppl off old windows versions and sucker them into a new term of sentence