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Re: [News] [Rival] The "Wow" is Officially Dead

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] The "Wow" is Officially Dead
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:18:07 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> http://www.showusyourwow.com/
> 
> "Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow
> contents to be listed."
> 
> Site broken. Wow!

The official explanation from Microsoft is that the Wows they expected
actually manifested as deathly silence, as people began to realise how
unbelievably crap Vista is:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=851

In reality, the "Wow" turned out to be a "W... W... What the F...???"

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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