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echo: osdebate
to: Rich Gauszka
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-12-19 10:32:16
subject: Re: Vista development only 2 years old?

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article ,
"Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
> If the person who made the video is still employed by Microsoft then they
>might have a crumb of humor left.  I've yet to see a Microsoft TV ad that
>didn't make their products seem like work

That's because their target market is work. (Businesses, especially big
businesses with big IT budgets.) They're into the home only because of the
drag effect - hook them on Microsoft products young and you'll have them
for life.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
 preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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