Dell fail - Microsoft linux [Archive]

Mentor

04-07-2009, 06:58 PM

Just stumbled across this and it amused me. According to dell ubuntu is a Microsoft operating system.

Check out the system on the left:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/mini_laptop_deals/fs.aspx?refid=mini_laptop_deals&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

All seems fine till you notice..

Base
N-Series Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz, 512K cache)

Microsoft Operating System
Ubuntu 8.04

10.1" Widescreen WSVGA with Truelife (1024x576)

All i can really say is... fail :p

Chippiewill

04-07-2009, 08:03 PM

Have the honours: http://failblog.org/fail-submissions/

Metric1

04-07-2009, 08:04 PM

Just stumbled across this and it amused me. According to dell ubuntu is a Microsoft operating system.

Check out the system on the left:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/mini_laptop_deals/fs.aspx?refid=mini_laptop_deals&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

All seems fine till you notice..

Base
N-Series Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz, 512K cache)

Microsoft Operating System
Ubuntu 8.04

10.1" Widescreen WSVGA with Truelife (1024x576)

All i can really say is... fail :p

I don't get it.... lol

Chippiewill

04-07-2009, 08:06 PM

Ubuntu ain't owned by Microsoft :rolleyes:

Mentor

04-07-2009, 08:53 PM

I don't get it.... lol

Well its kinda like browseing to apples site and reading in the description for a macbook:

Apple operating system:
Microsoft windows

Microsoft operating system
OSX

or

Linux operating system
Microsoft windows

There two directly competing operating systems and its confusing who owns them :p

The Professor

04-07-2009, 11:01 PM

bless them, it was late at night :P either that or swine flu has already hit them!

mat64

04-07-2009, 11:31 PM

Haha good find.

GommeInc

04-07-2009, 11:34 PM

It's stupid they do that, and waste alot of page space with "Microsoft Operating System" when all they need to do is cut out the Microsoft part and just have "Operating System" :/

Chippiewill

04-07-2009, 11:37 PM

It's stupid they do that, and waste alot of page space with "Microsoft Operating System" when all they need to do is cut out the Microsoft part and just have "Operating System" :/

And consider the 0.00000000000000000001s load time that they could save!