HP’s Wrath, Baidu’s Greed and Other Deadly Sins

TV shows like “The Hills” focus on the petty squabbles that go on in the world of spoiled, vapid socialites. I can’t think of a program that gets into the catfights that go on in the IT world, and I don’t know whether there’d really be a huge audience for something like that, but they do happen, and court documents in an ongoing lawsuit have revealed some juicy tidbits. The class-action suit concerns the promises made by some PC makers that their computers — even some really weak-kneed models — could shoulder the weight of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Vista.

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