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Wait, bloggers can keep the free laptops after all: Microsoft

apcmag.com — It's like playing peek-a-boo with a child: now Microsoft wants to give you a laptop. Now it doesn't. Now it does. In an apparent capitulation to bloggers who were ropable that their free Acer Ferrari from Microsoft was being taken away, the software giant has changed its mind ... again.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Here's a laptop. Write something nice."

    H-P had a similar strategy for affecting journalists.
  • jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Best use for these laptops/bribes would be to format the drives and install your favorite flavor of Linux. Then post pictures of them running Linux on your blogs.
  • joe90210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1read the original emails that MS sent out, they said bloggers can either return it, give it away or keep it, I don't see anything about changing their minds

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