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Re: [News] Even Microsoft Employees Cannot Use Windows Vista to Pay Tax

[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> 
>> Why You Might Want to Wait to Upgrade to Windows Vista  
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | As Microsoft probably intended, my first reaction to Vista was
>> | "Oooooh, pretty."  One of the new features that Vista is touting is
>> | Aero, its slick new design style (and as everyone and their mother
>> | has noted, it?s basically just Microsoft catching up with what Apple's
>> | been doing for years).  Problem is, if you run software that doesn't
>> | support Aero Glass, it turns off. For all programs, not just the one
>> | that's not compatible. Suddenly your nice new interface ain't so nice 
>> | anymore.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.texxors.com/2007/04/16/why-you-might-want-to-wait-to-upgrade-to-windows-vista/
>> http://tinyurl.com/29hoyn
>> 
>> This I did not know...
> 
> What a stupid design. Beryl doesn't suffer this problem, but then the
> whole X subsystem is modular, as it should be.
> 

The house of cards is falling down, now.  Years of poor design, driven
by marketing need, have created a tower of babel, which is about to
fall.  I think this is the first time I've really understood the tower
of babel...

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