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Windows 7 Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and Toshiba Implicated in Memory Price Fixing Conspiracy
Do you remember if you bought memory between 1999 and 2002? If you did, bet you thought it was really expensive. A major memory price fixing conspiracy is currently undergoing settlement in the United States, in which nearly every major DRAM manufacturer has been implicated. The alleged price...- Mike
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- antitrust class action conspiracy theory consumer rights dram electronics elpida history hitachi hynix lawsuit legal memory mitsubishi price fixing pricing semiconductors settlement toshiba united states
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Should Microsoft Windows 7 be free of charge?
Microsoft’s' newest operating system, Windows 7, has a new campaign out. The advertisements follow certain people around, and they end up showing how "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea". Of course Microsoft's new operating system was someone else's idea. They haven't had an original idea in...- xolo
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- advertising campaign class action consumer rights ideas intellectual property legal issues licensing mac microsoft pc users revenue sharing software ethics software pricing tech controversy user contributions user rights windows 7 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 microsoft customer service review
in my opinion sadly the only thing you will experience from microsoft hotline is a waste of your time, and / or money. my reasons were based on the following. i was transferred to three different reps, each of which i was asked my full name, phone number, email, edition of windows and reasons...- ObsidianShocker
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- bios update consumer rights customer service dissatisfaction hotline issue resolution key validation microsoft phone call review support reps tech support technical issues time wasting user experience windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 CableCARD, who's to blame
is it CableLabs? the ones who claim that only certain PC's can be "Certified" Digital Cable ready? Digital cable ready doesn't mean anything other than a small flag has been added to a BIOS that enables OCUR. from everything I've read, it can be added to any BIOS. Is it ATI the one and...- djarrum
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- ati cable card cable provider cablelabs certification compatibility consumer rights digital cable digital tv hardware licensing media center microsoft pc build streaming tech industry tech industry trends tuner
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 MS vs EU, MS forced to offer browser ballot
One of the most amusing things during Windows 7 development was the Internet Explorer story, when MS offered Windows 7 with removable IE, i was very happy and i was thinking sure this will make EU happy as well. It turns out that the EU wanted much more, and even removing IE completely from...- Ahmed Alzayani
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- ballot browser browser settings competition consumer rights internet explorer market share microsoft removable components software development tech industry debate technical issues user choice user experience windows 7 windows vista windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Game software guarantee
Today it has been released that members from the EU Commission are proposing to give Games and similar software a two year guarantee that is currently in place for "tangible movable consumer goods". If such a proposal was indeed made part of the regulations over the games industry in Europe it...- loathe
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- buggy games consumer consumer rights europe european commission gaming software guarantee regulations return policy video games
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- Forum: Windows Games