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Well now, doesn't that just figure...
The one SMART idea they had in 2003 they dump. Like UltimateTV and SideWinder, again they strand their customers.

I have NO trust in this company to do the right thing any more.

The main problem with Smart Displays was the cost. $1000 is too much. A big chunk of that cost was the included, non-optional copy of Windows XP Pro. Most people already have XP pro, and this added well over a hundred dollars excess cost to the product.

But, they gotta push that OS!
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MS and Abandon Ware?  boatelc | 01/06/04
Not really.  Delaware Boy | 01/06/04
clueless  stephen732@... | 01/06/04
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Message has been deleted.  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
DRM and EULA the ultimate problem here?  Squawkbox | 01/06/04
Way off the mark!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Shade I was just thinkin outloud  Squawkbox | 01/06/04
Well...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
One problem!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
and...  stephen732@... | 01/06/04
OS Cost to OEM.  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
MS support is $400 per call  voska | 01/06/04
wha....  nucrash | 01/07/04
Gouging?  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Didn't you yourself say?...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
MS support costs mucho $$$$  voska | 01/06/04
Red Hat Subscription is a bad example  nucrash | 01/07/04
A no win situation...  MalumRegnat | 01/07/04
With the exception of...  BitTwiddler | 01/06/04
No bundle.  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Says who?  nucrash | 01/07/04
Correct.  BitTwiddler | 01/07/04
DRM?  KTLA | 01/06/04
Dang ya'll chill I was just wonderin' thas all  Squawkbox | 01/06/04
Heaven forbid  Chad_z | 01/06/04
Smart Displays could not compete wtth laptop  Prognosticator | 01/06/04
Maybe Sun will take up the cause  FilledOut | 01/06/04
The price of innovation.  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Whatever Bit  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
Smart Displays!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Well, which is it??...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
Easily!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
I'll tell ya...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/06/04
GNU not Linux  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Corporations Don't Innovate  voska | 01/06/04
Intervention or Invention?  Jose Jimenez | 01/06/04
Hardly Innovation!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
You don't actually believe Microsoft invented the tablet PC, do you?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/06/04
OK, let's rephrase the question  nucrash | 01/07/04
That might explain it.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/06/04
Well now, doesn't that just figure...  BitTwiddler | 01/06/04
Another Innovation!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Originally Called Newton  Harry Bardal | 01/06/04
Not exactly!  ShadeTree | 01/06/04
Looks more a tablet PC to me  voska | 01/06/04
OMG fully functional Notebook....  nucrash | 01/07/04
Interesting idea but the economics didn't work  marksashton | 01/07/04
So who the contest then  FilledOut | 01/09/04

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