Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Vista's growing pains leave room for XP
>
> ,----[ Quote
>| Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. recently started selling XP machines on
>| their Web sites. Lenovo Group Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. also offer similarly
>| equipped machines.
> `----
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1939886820070719?feedType=RSS&rpc=92
>
> Something *truly* stinks over at the (MS)BBC where Vista is said to be doing
> well and Google is said to have missed expectations (in the headline, never
> mind the huge growth of over 50%). It's like Google bashing and Microsoft
> glorification side by side. Amazing! It's just like MSNBC, but funded by
> taxpayers.
>
> There's an odd headline suggesting that iPlayer might be open-sourced, but
> maybe it's a misunderstnading or bad wording...
>
> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2194310/bbc-open-source-iplayer
>
It's just possible that the pressure we, and others, have been putting
on Ashley Highfield to get out of the pockets of Microsoft and accept
that Microsoft will /never/ write a client which will work on platforms
it considers to be a threat has finally got through? Perhaps also
helped by the terrible publicity around the phone-in stuff.
Incidentally, an interesting remark from Mrs Mark over lunch today...
"but you've always maintained that these phone-ins were a con", well, I
always have, because I almost never see evidence of actual winners
winning things.
Somewhat reminiscent of "The Running Man", except that the BBC don't
often kill their contestents!
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