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The OSC has started a complaint with the BBC's Fair Trading Unit that the BBC are yet again giving the appearance of advertising a Microsoft product (that, in this case, does not even yet exist).

Extract from email

To: [BBC Fair Trading Unit]
Date: Wednesday 29 Oct 2008

...You may recall that Open Source Consortium expressed concern about BBC iPlayer and the Microsoft Windows operating system...

...moving forward, it feels like deja vu all over again.

On BBC News we see a two minute advertisement for Windows 7 - the replacement for Vista (link: BBC News item: A closer look at Windows 7). This product does not exist, even if it does come into existence, it will not exist for two years by Microsoft's own projections.[...]

Gerry Gavigan
Chairman
Open Source Consortium

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written by Rob Welsh, 27 February, 2009

I agree but what about the issue at 00.36 where the true usability of Windows is demonstrated - priceless. I honestly think some bright spark put that video on there to show the world what rubbish is next. Lets face it judging by this video it's not going to be that good. If only games manufacturers would start developing for Linux, wait hasn't id software recently been on the look out for a Linux developer? The times they are a changing...

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