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microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 09:42:34 AM » |
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Can't be true. Or is it???
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2007, 09:43:20 AM » |
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'SP3 will also remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to ensure it catches the attention of CEOs around the world. '
Sounded like horse *feces* all the way through, then graduated to bull*feces* by the end.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 01:11:43 PM » |
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They will lose any credibility that they don't have. Many critics of the forced upgrade plan find this punishment extreme, but Microsoft counters that "they obviously haven't seen the Aero interface." They think interface is reason enough to upgrade? |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 01:13:24 PM » |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2007, 01:17:24 PM » |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2007, 01:18:56 PM » |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2007, 01:35:22 PM » |
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TFT was referring to the article being satire, EAGLE. I think.
I caught these links next to the article as well:
Related News
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Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer
Disgruntled Clippy Accused Of Leaking Microsoft Licensing Key
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2007, 01:37:22 PM » |
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TFT was referring to the article being satire, EAGLE. I think.
I caught these links next to the article as well:
Related News
Microsoft Requiring Fingerprints and DNA for Vista WGA
Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer
Disgruntled Clippy Accused Of Leaking Microsoft Licensing Key
Yeah, but all those other links are true, it's just the one about SP3 that isn't....  |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2007, 01:43:44 PM » |
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I believe the Clippy one. Never trusted that bastage.
This one might also be true: "Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan"
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2007, 01:44:32 PM » |
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This one might also be true: "Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan"
How much did they pay? |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2007, 01:46:04 PM » |
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This one might also be true: "Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan"
How much did they pay? Redmond, WA - Microsoft purchased evil from Satan for $2.7 billion after many months of tough negotiations.
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2007, 01:46:16 PM » |
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Those links are at least as believable as the Beeb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6309651.stmGawd, if they sucked up to Microsoft an iota more they'd turn Bill Gates inside out. |
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Re: microsoft figures out how to make people buy vi$ta...
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2007, 01:52:30 PM » |
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$2.7 billion? Bargain. I'd have thought $3 billion, at least. Gates probably played a fiddle down in Georgia or something to drive the price south. |
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