I still can't decide, if it is in a genuine good-will to make it "look" familiar, but in any case, in practice it created an illusion of a cheap XP knock-off, w

I still can't decide, if it is in a genuine good-will to make it "look" familiar, but in any case, in practice it created an illusion of a cheap XP knock-off, which certainly didn't work like, and wasn't Windows. What is certain, is that they have signed a patent deal with MS, so I guess it was very much in consideration. This is why I went Acer instead of Asus. Could it have been just Intel behind the scene, to force MS into accepting reality, that most people don't need Microsoft Windows Vista Home Ultra Basic Premium on their P5 class Atom, which it wouldn't run decently anyway? Creating a world-wide desktop distribution is tough: RedHat gave up, SuSe is an MS proxy ["Keeping up appearances" series comes to mind], and Ubuntu is still the only desktop that has some traces of passion to drive it (its wallpaper always makes this point readily apparent).