I went to BestBuy on Thursday (January 25) to see about buying a new house computer (the one in the kitchen nobody owns but everybody uses). There were two computers on display; that’s right, two. BestBuy usually (in my personal experience) has around 30-50 computers on display, between all the notebook and desktop models from the 7-8 brands they carry. On Thursday, the shelves were empty except for a couple of computers running Vista in demo mode. But those computers didn’t have pricing.

I discovered that those computers didn’t have pricing because Microsoft decreed that Vista wouldn’t be for sale until the following Tuesday. Now, isn’t that just the most interesting thing you can imagine. I wanted to buy a computer and was ready to walk out of the door with one. But I wasn’t able to buy one and BestBuy wasn’t able to sell me one.

Going forward, I will only be able to buy computers running Microsoft Vista. As far as I can tell, Windows XP has been removed from the market. Microsoft knows better. Too bad I wasn’t able to get the computer.

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