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to: Geo.
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-12-27 16:43:00
subject: Re: GUI Madness

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From: Gary Britt 

Well their marketshare could hardly go down.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "John Beckett"  wrote in message
> news:j714p21hjla2h83fmudl6g3ifidvvibg60{at}4ax.com...
>
>> I guess so. Probably also Microsoft figures that their only growth
>> path is
>> the very young and the senile - so more GUI madness makes sense.
>
> Microsoft is lost. I bet they don't use any NT4 or W2K internally
> anymore which would explain why vista requires a registry edit to turn
> on NTLM so it can do file sharing with older windows systems instead of
> the troubleshooting wizard offering to fix it easily.
>
> These people are so out of touch with the realities of the computing
> world that I honestly don't hold much hope for them, they're on the way
> out. Mark my words, barring a complete turnaround of that company their
> marketshare is going nowhere but down.
>
> Geo.

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