____/ Linonut on Saturday 25 August 2007 15:17 : \____
> ... actually responded to mouse movements on their touchpads at Staples.
>
> I was in Staples (an American office store), and I looked at all of the
> laptops there, all their screens black. But most of them (7) had the
> power turned on. So, on a whim, I rubbed the touchpads of each. Three
> of the seven never responded.
>
> Of the four that, after a few seconds, showed Vista on their screen, two
> took at least 15 seconds to respond.
>
> I was, how do you say it?, gob-smacked by the quality of these showroom
> laptops.
>
> I finally figured out why the little circle effect is present when you
> right click on the Vista desktop to bring up a menu, too. It distracts
> you from the lag that occurs before the menu pops up.
>
> By the way, my personal count of Vista users remains at 1, and that guy
> moved to Florida.
Florida?!?! I didn't know he had retired already. He still seems to be very
busy. More at the bottom... about this Vista user.
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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense
| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
|
| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by
| one vote to support Microsoft.
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