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

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From: Ron AG (ronag_at_ms.net)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:34:19 -0500

They won't explain why MS have released a new SP2 firewall which blocks
incoming intrusions only...
:)

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:OIJRqTnhEHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:e%23xnnBnhEHA.244@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy',
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html
>
> "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
> news:ecUOlwmhEHA.1568@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
> >
> >
> > "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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