Re: Microsoft tries to polish a turd

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:49:10 +0000, invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


"But we know a few of you were disappointed by your
early encounter. Printers didn?t work. Games felt
sluggish. You told us?loudly at times?that the latest
Windows wasn?t always living up to your high
expectations for a Microsoft product."

High expectations of Microsoft products? Somebody has those?

XP is good enough that they should leave it alone. Vista is trying to
mimic the Apple OS, but without the programming skills.

Word is an astounding POS.

IE, Outlook, and any other Microsoft products should not be allowed
anywhere near a tcp/ip port.

Their self-flattering prose is, as usual, disgusting.

John


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