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Originally posted by phreenet
I like IE6 and OfficeXP, just because it has the words XP in it, doesn't means its all bad.
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what are you talking about? Of course it does!
...although more in a symbolic way, XP is where MS stopped listening to the customer. They knew whatever they made, if by any measure it could be deemed better people would buy it. Thus, XP. If microsoft keeps
this kind of stuff up (more detail including their backing down when just about everyone complained
here), they'll keep driving customers away until they have none left. (this isn't necessarily a bad thing). The fact is that MS strives when under stiff competition. Now they have none. So no pressure to make products and decisisons that benefit consumers. And for those that dont feel like clicking the links, M$ demanded several large school districts audit tens of thousands of seats for license compliance within a very short deadline, and wouldn't back off until just about everyone complained. Now most of the districts are looking into setting up Linux systems... not because its cheaper, but because their vendor doesnt have them by the balls.