____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 18 March 2008 23:15 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft ditches support for Money
>
> Well that's just great.
>
> I actually received Money 05 as a gift 3 years ago. The big selling
> point was that it supposedly worked with online banking, for those lucky
> enough to have an account at the one or two banks that were actually
> supported.
>
> Mine wasn't.
>
> I lost interest in it rapidly after that, not that there was much to
> maintain my interest anyway. The interface was horribly unintuitive and
> disconnected. There never was an update provided to support my bank,
> that I'm aware of.
>
> I suppose I could have tried selling it on eBay, but for the sake of the
> tenner or so I might have made, it didn't seem worth the effort. It's
> currently gathering dust on a shelf next to a couple of dozen PC
> magazine coverdiscs that I've never used either. It'll be gathering dust
> in a landfill site soon, once I bin it, now that it's officially become
> Abandonware.
>
> Ah the "joys" of proprietary software.
>
> There's a certain black irony in Microsoft abandoning a product that
> supposedly enables /other/ people to manage finances, isn't there?
It abandons children too, not just software, over which it maintain exclusive
rights.
Gates demands better schools as Gates-backed school closes
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| But just before the Gates editorial appeared, word broke that one of
| the hi-tech schools in the heart of Silicon Valley will be shut down
| because of a lack of funding and students.
|
| The board of directors behind the High Tech High in Redwood City
| -- the home of Oracle -- last week voted unanimously to mothball
| the school less than two years after it opened.
|
| [...]
|
| Parents and students broke down in tears during a meeting about the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| school, saying they were promised a five-year commitment to keep the
| project going.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/27/gates_school/
It could be worse. The children could be locked up in school with a stack of
XBox360s.
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~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I
have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill
Google."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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