Crime: Microsoft offers deep discounts on its OS to makers of low-spec computers. Punishment: Some clown on the internet accuses them of "crushing" stuff. I k

Crime: Microsoft offers deep discounts on its OS to makers of low-spec computers. Punishment: Some clown on the internet accuses them of "crushing" stuff. I know that we're all supposed to hate Microsoft and all, but really, can't they even do something nice without everybody piling on them? So yeah, in order to give out a discount on low-spec machines, you need to draw a line somewhere. In a field as crowded as low-spec notebooks, chances are that line is going to be close to a few existing machines. But really, it's just silly to pick a few of those machines that happen to be near the cutoff and pretend that somehow Microsoft decided to "crush" them. It's a discount fer cryin' out loud. It's a good thing.