__/ [ Peter Hayes ] on Monday 11 September 2006 09:45 \__
> In <4687072.iQo99xUuML@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Hasta la Vista, part 2: MSFT Titanic
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>>| Even more features
>>| are scrapped in a desperate attempt to hit the release date. Now even
>>| the major networks are beginning to pick up the problems at Microsoft,
>>| like ABC ("What's wrong with Microsoft") and CNN ("A reality check
>>| for Vista").
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> Is Vista going to become the new Millennium Edition?
>
> [For newcomers, this was Microsoft's deperate attempt at an OS release
> for the millennium. Driven by Marketing, it was hacked in a hurry from
> bits of Win98 and is generally regarded as not their finest hour.]
One of the major magazine had it among the top flops in technology. It hit
the top tier of the top 10, IIRC.
A friend of mine still uses Windows ME. He gets his son-in-law's engineer to
'fix' (read: reinstall) his O/S, on average, once a year. If he got charged
for this, the bill would easily exceed $1000.
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