Re: XP has no significant bugs that any significant number of users want fixed





John Larkin wrote:

> That's correct. To Microsoft, neither bugs nor users are significant.

They have an essentially captive market - buy a Dell etc.... and you
*have* to have Windows. Doesn't even matter if it's any good or whatever.
Word simply drives me nuts !


Graham

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