As always, Billy Gates is out for global conquest. And he wants to keep hold of his control over computers worldwide by pimping his new OS to every new PC user. They are now expecting to reach a milestone of one billion by the end of a year’s time.

Now here’s one story I failed to mention when I purchased this notebook. While I was given a choice on which OS to put, it was pretty much a no-brainer decision. I could get Linux for free (Duh! Like they will still charge me for FOSS). Or I could get XP Professional for an additional price. Or I could get Vista Home Basic for free together with my memory upgrade. I was dead sure I was getting an upgrade so I’m practically getting Vista Home Basic for free. Turns out, that XP Professional can probably kick Vista Home Basic’s lame ass any day. But who would want to pay extra, right?

But Microsoft still intends to bundle Vista together with the new PCs and that’s probably the best way for them to sell, in a marketeer’s perspective that is. But wouldn’t that heavily influencing the customer’s choice? Since there’s a notion that anything “bundled” is free, people would definitely bite into getting Vista-powered PCs.

It has been six months since Vista was launched globally. Microsoft says that they’ve already shipped out 60 million copies of the darned OS. And one of those 60 million would definitely be that bundle of CDs labeled Windows Vista Home Basic stored somewhere in my pile of installers.

Via Computerworld