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Author: parrey
Forum: General Discussions
Date: 2009-02-16

I have been thinking over the last few months that microsoft is missing a huge market of pc buyers. Gamers. i am a gamer and i think about this often. why does microsoft not release a version of windows that does not have all the rubbish / bloat that the current systems have and optimize them for gamers. ok i can understand how this could be hard to do but you cant tell me that the people at microsoft dont play games. i am sure if you look at their workstations that most the standard microsoft crap is not even installed. if microsfot gets upset that we as consumers uninstall parts of windows or use nlite / vlite etc to remove the crap from the install why dont they look at releasing a version with all the stuff removed?? i dont think it would be to hard to achive, post a forum on their website and ask gamers what parts of windows do we not use - i thaught this would be pretty easy. and i would guess that most of use remove the same items.
i also wonder if releasing a version like this that maybe doesnot require activation every time we change hardware / reload windows etc that the amount of pirate versions online would decrease.
also the cost of windows, why not make it cheap, $100 - $200 us. which i am in new zealand and by the time i have to buy it is is stupid. vista ultimate x64 costs around $600nz dollars - and thats 2 years after release.

i look forward to hearing what everyone else has to say about this.
cheers
Parrey