From: mike 


That is exactly the core problem.  Microsoft's users (customers) are not
the end users of Windows, Microsoft's users (customers) are the media
companies, the PC OEMs.

The end-users of Windows are merely chattel, the captive attention of which
is sold to the media companies.


 /m

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:08:56 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>They did.  You just don't understand who MS's users are.
>
>On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:00:53 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>
>> "mike"  wrote in message
>> news:h67po2ltuq7curjlamk1r18mj3lpbqjoin{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> "...The Vista Content Protection specification could very well
>>> constitute the longest suicide note in history...."
>>
>> Gee, if only they had spent half this effort on adding features for the
>> users...
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>

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