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It's too bad that millions of happy users are going to get their disk(s) a month or so earlier directly from "Tommie Boy" (he/she/it has a shop of sorts down the street somewhere in Shanghai, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangalore, New Delhi, Tashkent, Moscow,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,
ad infinitum...), or from "Jennie Lou", who probably has a shop next to his, or "Dirty Bill", "Lucky", or you insert the name of an anonymous pirate, who makes millions, one dollar at a time...)

I don't particularly like this on several levels, some of which I'm certain Microsoft would disagree with me about.

But this is obviously their fault, ultimately.

If they would stop building up hope and desire in their customers for months each time they "release to manufacturing" a new OS or Service Pack, them destroy their high level of expectation by letting them know, as an afterthought, "and oh, by the way, customers will not get their hands on the bits for a few months yet...", the customers would NOT be willing to STEAL ("after all", they say, "it's not really "stealing", is it, when they've stolen a few hundred from us each time we buy one of their OSes"? We're just getting even with Microsoft for all those years of robbing us blind with their crappy-a**ed OSes".

How EVL of them to allow their customers to come to this end, that they will become just like the ones who taught them to steal, by charging them an arm and a leg just to use THEIR computers. (Hopefully, you can correctly connect all those pronouns.) And then, withholding updates from them.

This is just like the rich in their dinner parties: They LOVE to sit beside large windows,showing off their finery and delicacies, while the poor and homeless look in, drooling in hunger over their excess.

One day, that's all gonna come back to haunt them, because "poor and homeless folks" are slow to be moved to action, because they are so hungry. But once they get hungry enough, they will be ready to snatch that food out of the mouths of the rich, along with their fine pearl false teeth in the bargain (if there's such a thing -- remember, I'm trying to make a parable of sorts.

Anyway, come on, MIcrosoft, let us get the bits a little sooner?

Donald L McDaniel

Posted by: orthocross   Posted on: 02/07/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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