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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Listens to Its Customers, Helps Them Escape the Vista Mess

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Listens to Its Customers, Helps Them Escape the Vista Mess
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:56:36 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XP
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | All this sounds good on (virtual) paper. Like my ZDNet blogging
> | colleague Ed Bott, I wouldn’t go so far as to call Vista
> | "Windows Me2." But I know I still wouldn’t want to be a Vista
> | salesperson...
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=543
>
> Hey, [H]omer, even Bott and Foley nicked your joke. Perhaps it's you
> who invented this and Charlie -- the man that made it popular.

That's OK, Demerjian and Foley have a license to use my trademark ;)

And, er ... who says I'm "joking"?

I'm deadly serious; Vista *is* "Windows ME2"®.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They
|  never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our
|  people, and neither do we." - George (Dubya) Bush.
`----

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