[ale] Microcenter sells a PC loaded with Linux!

[Michael Potter]

My favorite paid product placement fail:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/tech/social-media/oprah-surface-tweet

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, I have noticed some shows with obviously Dell or Apple computers that have MS logos over the Dell or Apple logos.
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Scott Plante [splante at insightsys.com]
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> "for example CBS Hawaii 5 0 all tech is M$."
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> Yeah, I've seen that on lots of shows since the beginning of the year, especially the Win8 keyboard tablets. I'm pretty sure those are paid product placements, and it smacks of desperation on MS' part to me. Non-techie consumers may still be swayed by it, of course. I don't know the current consensus in Psychology on that near-subliminal type of thing.
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> I wouldn't count on that. Mafia$haft stock has actually gone up once
> again making BG the richest guy around. Also there's more M$ products
> being seen on TV and movies, for example CBS Hawaii 5 0 all tech is
> M$. When they started they were using iPhones and now they've been
> replaced with M$ phones. The only noticeable area of tech that is non
> M$ are the cars as far as I know Chevy uses embedded Linux, but how
> many consumers realize that?
>
>
> On 05/20/2013 12:28 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
>> Does this mean M$ is slowly sinking. I here more companies are
>> selling a Linux box or two (usually Ubuntu) as if they are
>> beginning to hedge their bets on Windows.
>>
>> On Sun, 19 May 2013 23:46:12 -0400, Jim Kinney
>> <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://microcenter.com/product/410171/N106_Desktop_Computer
>>
>> -- -- James P. Kinney III //// ///Every time you stop a school, you
>> will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the
>> other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the
>> dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain //// http://electjimkinney.org
>> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ /// //
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>> -- Jay Lozier jslozier at gmail.com
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