Comment 348 for bug 1

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Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote :

http://i.dell.com/images/us/segments/dhs/ubuntu_banner_728x400.jpg

Just beautiful :)

I note however that the page on which the image appears:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&=
has an error on it:

"Dell recommends Windows Vista™ Home Premium."

An article on NewsForge described the phrase "[OEM] recommends Windows [version]" as the "Mark of the Microsoft Beast"
http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/2018237
and mentions how its part of a MS-OEM "marketing agreement" (IOW, MS pays them to say that) and specifically mentions Dell, Lenovo, HP and Acer.

The next indicator of progress towards resolving Bug #1 will be to watch for the "Mark" to drop off the websites of various OEMs...