>That's my point. If I'm on Linux/WINE, I'm never going to Microsoft to get an OS update.
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>So, did Microsoft do the equivalent of enforcing that... under no circumstances will they give anyone an air conditioner in the Arctic?
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>I'm puzzled at the significance of this; and why they did this in the first place???
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>Guy
I don't know. Three alternative theories come to mind, though.
1) Perhaps Microsoft has information which is more accurate than your speculations.
2) Or, on the other hand, you are right, and Microsoft has a completely flawed image of reality (on this particular point, at least).
3) Or they are just doing it for reasons of publicity.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
