Microsoft Pulling XP to Force Vista Adoption

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So companies don't want Vista? Well, we can fix that…. (hand rubbing and evil snicker).

Microsoft will stop allowing companies to install OEM versions of XP by the end of the year.

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Quicken and MS Money Extort From Their Users

So you have a perfectly usable version? Let's patch that up for you...
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The Consumerist is running an article explaining how both Quicken and MS Money improperly and possibly illegally force users to upgrade to newer software by purposely cutting off necessary features to older versions.

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