Cross-posted as an edit...
...here http://community.livejournal.com/asuseee/4851.html comes this piece via boingfeed regarding how Micro$oft intend to limit their Linux-rivalling new OS to only those ultra low-cost portables which meet the correct specs:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=21271
It's early days on this one, but given how much Eee users like to tinker, keeping a Windows genie in the bottle it's designed for may well prove to be a corporate pipe dream...
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Edit: More Facebook woe...
"Credit Action says adverts promising cheap loans for people with poor credit ratings are appearing on the site and many break advertising regulations."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7395344.stm
http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=21271
It's early days on this one, but given how much Eee users like to tinker, keeping a Windows genie in the bottle it's designed for may well prove to be a corporate pipe dream...
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Edit: More Facebook woe...
"Credit Action says adverts promising cheap loans for people with poor credit ratings are appearing on the site and many break advertising regulations."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7395344.stm