Published at LXer:

How quickly the mighty retrograde their product line. And in the end, it is pretty funny. It wasn't a multi-billion dollar coalition of global competitors that banded together to make Microsoft retreat. It was a ragged band of developers, users and Advocates who spend as much time ripping into each other as they do fighting off Microsoft. It was an entity that doesn't even have a physical address or even a real leadership presence that forced Microsoft to all but abandon their billion dollar Vista venture and re-issue XP. How it is being done is even more amusing.

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