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Common Sense and MSFT?
Surely you jest (I know, you're not kidding and don't call you Surely). This is MSFT we're talking about here. When have they executed anything well in the last ten years?

I suppose you could argue SP2 for XP was a bright speck in an otherwise bleak landscape of fumbled opportunities and hideous business practices. Too little, too late.

Had they not had such a big chunk of the desktop and productivity market they'd be dead already. They've gotten by because they such a big profit margin they can simply paper their mistakes with money. But that doesn't improve their execution or their products. Which are, IMHO, crap.

They've got a lot of their hopes pinned on Longbone but if you look at the adoption of XP it doesn't give me a lot of faith that Shoehorn will be the end all MSFT hopes it will be.

I think MSFT customers have finally been ridden hard enough and long enough that they're really tired of their petty chisels and heavy handed license practices. My best guess is that Longshot is coming along too late to stop the bleeding. I don't think MSFT will die anytime soon, but I'm guessing they equalize at much smaller market share than they have now.
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In other words  AbsolutelyNot | 08/13/04
Common Sense and MSFT?  Chad_z | 08/13/04
What and have the new customers miss all the fun we had fighting with 3.1  Squawkbox | 08/13/04
I just knew it!  kd5auq | 08/13/04
First, what is the reason for the cheap version  FilledOut | 08/13/04
MONEY....ONLY MONEY  gui_mart | 10/12/04
The main problem is Microsoft definition of "first time users"  Xunil_Sierutuf | 08/13/04
3 Apps only?  voska | 08/13/04
Huh? You mean we can run more than one app at a time on XP?  Squawkbox | 08/13/04
Why yes! MS BSOD!  Jeff Spicoli | 08/13/04
Jeff you gotta see this  Squawkbox | 08/13/04
That wuz great!  Jeff Spicoli | 08/13/04
Probably already enforced.  Letophoro | 08/13/04
How would that be implemented?  doe_z | 08/13/04
i would say....  ryusen | 08/13/04
What I think too...  doe_z | 08/13/04
I bet the first app will be a dispatcher  hipparchus2000 | 08/13/04
Missing the real reason  AmusedAtItAll | 08/16/04
It's obvious why the networking was ...  bjbrock | 08/13/04
Exactly..good call  Jeff Spicoli | 08/13/04
NETWORKING ADVANTAGE.  gui_mart | 10/12/04
stay away from xpee, period.  mvaar | 08/13/04
shouldn't it be "windows XP cheap and cheesy" ?  mvaar | 08/13/04
haha - they shoudl of went with used copies of Win2k  V Sanders | 08/14/04

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