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An economic analyst vs Microsoft Windows Vista

Thursday Apr 19, 2007

Lets face it, most operating system installers aren't fun. If Microsoft Windows weren't pre-installed on more than 90% of desktop PCs, I suspect more than a few PCs would be sitting at BIOS boot prompts. But if the experience of my favorite blogging economist is any indication, even when you have a monopoly and your OS is pre-installed on 90% of new PCs, you can still screw up the initial user experience. Michael Shedlock is a economic analyst with an interesting view on everything from global property bubbles to currency carry trades to the goofy and dangerous actions of the Federal Reserve board. But give him a new laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed and pretty soon there's blood on the floor (literally!)

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