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Dell IdeaStorm is a website launched by Dell on February 16, 2007 to allow Dell to "to gauge which ideas are most important and most relevant to" the public. [1] A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP...
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February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ...
After registering, users are able to add articles, promote them, and comment on them. As articles are promoted, their score is increased, allowing Dell to rank which suggestions and requests are considered most important by the website's users. A page is maintained to demonstrate how Dell is acting upon the suggestions.
The most popular suggestions [2] are about the inclusion of free software and operating systems in a Dell computer system. Other popular suggestions include requests for Dell's technical support telephone lines to be based in the USA (and other countries in which Dell computers are sold) and manned by people who speak and understand English well, as opposed to being based in foreign countries or manned by foreigners who do not speak and understand English well; and that Dell's website be improved. Various improvements and changes in the style, design, and hardware of Dell's products have also been requested. Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project (the GNU head), the Linux kernel mascot Tux the Penguin, and the FreeBSD daemon Free software is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation[1] to refer to software that can be used, studied, and modified without...
An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
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Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. ...
A telephone line (or just line) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communications system. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
For the American magazine, see Foreign Policy. ...
A foreigner, or an alien, is a natural person who is not a citizen of the State in question. ...
Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, including the digital circuitry, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. ...
Users have raised concerns [3] that minority groups with strong feelings about certain issues, particularly free software, are overly represented on the website. A minority or subordinate group is a sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant plurality of the total population of a given society. ...
Infrastructure
Dell's IdeaStorm is powered by salesforce.com and uses the same infrastructure that powers the IdeaExchange. Salesforce. ...
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