I've noticed that fliers from electronics shops have been missing something. They no longer identify the operating system installed for the depicted computer. This holds for fliers from Best Buy, Future Shop, Wal-mart, London Drugs, Staples, and others, for computers from Toshiba, Acer, HP, and more.
No longer do we know if we are eying a computer with Vista or one of the other many dialects of Vista. (Does any computer even ship with the rip-off Ultimate variant?) The exceptions are ones with Linux, Windows XP, or include a Vista-XP upgrade disc.
I wonder if this is a campaign by Microsoft to hide the embarrassment of Vista -- don't scare off potential customers by revealing the operating system too soon. These are "just" computers.
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