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Old 09-10-2007, 06:10 AM   #1
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LXer: Microsoft starts a "Get the Facts" campaign...against itself


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You've got to hand it to Microsoft. It hates ANYTHING and ANYONE that gets in its way of selling its software. Including, apparently, itself. In a very funny turn of events, Microsoft is out preaching to the industry that XP is a bloated expense hog, while svelte Vista will cure world hunger (or, at least, cost less). Anyway, Microsoft must really be hurting if it has to resort to beating up on its most stable product in years.

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Old 09-10-2007, 07:28 AM   #2
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This is news? I seem to remember them doing the same thing to Windows 98 when XP came out.
 
Old 09-10-2007, 10:58 AM   #3
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Good article. I started composing a comment in my head when I started reading the article, but when I finished reading, I realized I had nothing to add. (That didn't keep me from posting, though. )
 
  


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