Or when Microsoft was caught bribing bloggers with $2,500 laptops to promote Windows Vista.

还有微软被发现用价值 2500 美元的笔记本电脑贿赂博客博主来推广 Windows Vista。

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Or when Microsoft was caught bribing bloggers with $2, 500 laptops to promote Windows Vista.

还有微软被发现用价值 2500 美元的笔记本电脑贿赂博客博主来推广 Windows Vista。

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And Peter Kim of Forrester, a consultancy, points out that when Microsoft sent laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista software to influential bloggers in an effort to get them to write about it, the resulting online discussion ignored Vista and focused instead on the morality of accepting gifts and the ethics of word-of-mouth marketing.

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Unfortunately for Microsoft, this could mean that there will be fewer consumers buying new laptops when Windows 8 arrives than there were when Windows Vista and Windows 7 were released.

FORBES: Windows 8: Dead Before Arrival?

Anyways, no complaints here -- Toshiba didn't hold back with its new A135 15.4-inch laptops, and you can nab your own with Windows Vista Home Premium of Windows Vista Ultimate on January 30th.

ENGADGET: Toshiba's new Satellite A135 laptop lineup sports Vista