From CNET:

http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9882844-60.html?tag=nefd.lede

It seems Microskank is turning into a pussy ass.

Cuss and discuss, everyone.

So why did mighty Microsoft turn so wimpy?
Posted by Charles Cooper

Time was when Microsoft inspired dread in the tech industry. With a few
exceptions, most rivals and partners did their best not to get on Bill
Gates' bad side.

So why did Microsoft agree to a two-tiered Vista upgrade program that
its managers knew was a mistake? The trove of e-mails released in
connection with a pending class action lawsuit paint a Microsoft
strangely unwilling to stand up to pushy Wintel partner Intel.

Check out these juicy passages highlighted by Todd Bishop at The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer:

http://tinyurl.com/2mvobd

So much for a saturated marketplace.

"zara" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:%%TVxj.3233$rE5.3032@bignews5.bellsouth.net...

And women call you "short stuff" after your microscopic penis size.

...the news wires are reporting that the retail prices for Vista have
been slashed.

'Cuss and Discuss'

... but do so while maintaining consistency with whatever claim you've
made in the past as to what a price cut means....

-hh

Submitted by Andy Space on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 17:40.

Hidden in among Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook's speech to the
Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium was a critical barometer
of Apple's success - Apple beat Dell in laptop sales in the US higher
education market.

While most reports focused on Cook's optimism as regards iPhone sales
this year, the executive also told analysts: ""We just received word on
Monday that Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of
portables to US higher education for 2007," Cook claimed.
"The ceiling for the Macs is nowhere in sight. Even if the market itself
isn't growing, for us, switching Windows users is an enormous
opportunity," Cook also added.

This is a critical metric for Apple, which once dominated computing on
college campuses.

In October 2007, analyst Toni Sacconaghi Jr. of Bernstein Research noted
Apple to hold 29 per cent of the US market for notebooks in the most
expensive fifth of the market, up from 8 per cent three years before
that. In education, Apple took 46 per cent in the top tier slice of the
market, the analyst explained.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:34:04 -0800 (PST), Comrade Spetsnaz
earthlink.net> wrote:

This message is cross posted to comp.os.linux.advocacy &
comp.sys.mac.advocacy.

I'm not trying to start a war. I'm just not sure if either group has
the whole the answer on its own.

Now, that the legal disclaimer is out of the way.......

Mac OS X is unix underneath the GUI, which is essentially what GNU/
Linux is. It seems like a short jump to make a version of iTunes
that runs on GNU/Linux. There are a number of GNU/Linux users who
have iPods. Is there a technical problem that Apple can not
overcome? Why don't they make a version of iTunes for GNU/Linux?
They are the number 2 electronic music retailer.

In article gallopinginsanity.com>,
Snit gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

O2 Ireland boss calls iPhone customers 'freaks'

But we all knew that.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=20595

O2 Ireland CEO Danuta Gray calls Apple users "freaks" in an interview with
the Irish Independent this morning.

Confirming O2 Ireland's plans to introduce the iPhone in that country in
March, Ms. Gray said: "I'd say your Apple freaks will be queuing out the
door when we launch."

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C3EE5378.1884B%%Wally@wally.world.net on 2/29/08 8:27 AM: