Roy Schestowitz wrote:
| 5) Last, but not least, Microsoft has lost its vision. Think about it.
| Microsoft didn't see the shift coming to cheap, lightweight laptops.
There is an internal MS email about this that came out during discovery
in the Vista-capable class-action suit. The email is pretty old
(something like 2-3 years) by now, which shows that they knew a long
time ado about that issue relative to cheap laptops and still
couldn't/wouldn't do anything about it until Eee with Linux had already
made its splash. The email was a scolding delivered to that former Sun
guy who resigned from MS some few months ago---the guy who perhaps as
penance was assigned to give away XP to deserving third-worlders who
couldn't afford Vista-ready hardware. The emails were presented as PDFs
or so, so you can't google directly for the text.
So, now
| Microsoft has had to reverse itself and give XP Home a new lease on life. I'm
| quite sure that they'll also soon have to bring XP Pro out of retirement too.
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