This is a stupid article. The Inquirer thinks that MS is selling Vista for $3, when in reality it is a crippled XP. Getting that basic fact wrong, to me, invalidates their whole premise.
Yeh, I read that it was $3 XP as well which is strange cause I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.
the inquirer is rarely 100% , possibly even 80% or 70 or 60 correct and lately all they have become is a anti-MS clearing house.