Re: The ca$h cow could be even fatter than it is...

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 08/20/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:16:50 -0600

That article has a few more specifics but not many.
This seems to be making something out of nearly nothing considering
the dates.
Other than a 2 year old game, everything else I saw was ancient by
technology standards.

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"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message 
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It comes from a speech by some MS executive. It's in all papers (at 
least in Australia and it appears Great Britain). But then geography 
probably would make American papers not run the story - they don't 
know what the word means.
London: A tiny shading error in a computer program involved Microsoft 
in a multi-million dollar business fiasco, the head of the firm's 
geopolitical strategy unit has disclosed.
Tom Edwards told the International Geographical Union congress in 
Glasgow how erroneously colouring eight out of 800,000 pixels dark 
rather than light green to represent Kashmir's disputed territory as 
non-Indian in Windows 95's time zone feature had led to the product 
being banned in India.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/19/1092889283736.html
Also Raymond Chen has spoken about the same time zone map and said the 
same thing in explaining why we can't select our time zone the 'good' 
way.
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679.aspx
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"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message 
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> Other than a reference to Windows 95 and Age of Empires there is 
> very
> little to date anything in the article.
> Since dates would be very relevant as well as specific facts that 
> are
> nonexistent in the article, this seems the quality of junk typical 
> of
> the  Guardian and their shoddy and just plain worthless reporting.
>
> Then there is the part that seems to suggest Office 97 was a
> replacement for Windows 95.
>
> Which is it?
> There are no recent facts or facts  are nonexistant.
> Or
> The Guardian staff is so inept they can not produce the sources for
> their stories?
>
> My guess is a little or lot of the first and fully the second as is
> typical for the Guardian staff.
>
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> Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
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>
>
> "hermes" <hermes@messenger.net> wrote in message
> news:ODDUgimhEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1286066,00.html
> >
> > You would think they would do some research before hand.  Of 
> > course,
> > if they did that, they might actually have a decent operating 
> > system
> > too.
> >
> > --
> > hermes
> > DRM sux!  Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
> > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Windows XP crashed.
> > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> > No one hears your screams 


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