Is Microsoft forcing Vista on users?

Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, is being probed by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission after an activist group filed a complaint saying consumers are being forced to buy its Windows Vista operating system.

Microsoft can face fines of as much as NT$25 million ($796,000) and be ordered to halt illicit practices if found guilty of fair-trade breaches.

Microsoft should be fined for using its monopoly to force consumers to adopt Vista after the company ended sales of Windows XP in June, Taiwan's Consumer Foundation, a non-profit group, said in its complaint posted on its Website.

Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, stopped selling XP individually and pre-installing the operating system in most computers in June to spur Vista sales.

Vista, which was released for consumers in January last year, requires more memory capacity and greater processing power than XP.

Demand for XP
The Consumer Foundation said its research showed 56 per cent of consumers buying a computer with Vista would reinstall XP, while 67 per cent oppose Microsoft ending the sale of the earlier operating system.

Windows XP remains available preinstalled in some low-cost computers such as Acer Inc's Aspire One laptop.

Under Taiwan's Fair Trade Act, a company may not “use incentives or other devious means to induce a business to alter a consumer's shopping choices,” the foundation said in the statement.

How to get to the command prompt by directly right-clicking on the folder

Very frequently we need to create command prompt at a certain folder. Most users directly go to command prompt and then type out the entire path name to get to the required folder.
Would it not be much easier to get to the command prompt by directly right-clicking on the folder?
Below is how you can do it. This is valid only for Win XP. Other operating systems have not been checked.

1. Create a text file wherever it is easy for you to access it.
2. Copy and past the following data into the file command.txt :

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\DosHere]
@="Command &Prompt Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\DosHere\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /k cd \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\DosHere]
@="Command &Prompt Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\DosHere\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /k cd \"%1\""

3. Save the file
4. Now rename the extension from a command.txt to a command.reg (registry type file). Go to DOS prompt and type C:\ren command.txt command.reg
5. Double clicking the file will pop up a dialog box saying "Are you sure you want to add the data to the registry".
6. Say yes and the data gets added into your windows registry. 

Now any folder where you want a command prompt, it is as easy as right clicking on the folder and choosing "Command Prompt Here".