> Customers buying many of the least-expensive laptops with the software are likely to be limited to running three applications at a time and miss out on other

> Customers buying many of the least-expensive laptops with the software are likely to be limited to running three applications at a time and miss out on other key features, or pay for an upgrade. This strikes me as scarily bad strategy. I buy a new computer and ... I can't do much with it. Am I happy about my purchase? I wonder whether the real losers here are going to be the hardware sellers. Microsoft, after all, does make useable versions of its operating system. If a computer is received with an unusable OS on it, then the customers might blame the people who put together the computer. Disclaimer: I didn't read the who article, seeing as the rest of it is subscription-only. (Eerily similar to the Microsoft strategy the article is discussing, eh?)