Well, they are mainly targeting machines that would usually come with a flavour of GNU/Linux or any other free (in this case free as in beer) operating system and that are not capable of running Vista.
I think next month was the original deadline after which Windows XP is no longer sold to OEMs, forcing them to ship all new machines with Vista instead.
So Microsoft is not abusing their strong market positiion, but they are rather trying not to lose a niche market to the competition.
I think next month was the original deadline after which Windows XP is no longer sold to OEMs, forcing them to ship all new machines with Vista instead.
So Microsoft is not abusing their strong market positiion, but they are rather trying not to lose a niche market to the competition.