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pandabear
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11 Dec 2007, 9:03 am

Aaron Edlin points out that Microsoft continues to profit at its users' expense by creating incompatibilities, and suggests that you think twice before asking Santa for a new Windows machine with Vista and Office 2007.

http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol4/iss5/art4/



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12 Dec 2007, 2:28 am

Wait a second.... are you tring to say that Bill Gates is a moraly unsrupulous, oprotunistic, greedy liar? ....... :wink: :lol:


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12 Dec 2007, 3:07 am

What? something new under the sun? Nah.



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12 Dec 2007, 8:28 am

I am not sure. I think the biggest problem with window is that it tries to be backwords compatible.
Backwords compatability leeds to boatwere. That is why you would have a problem running windows XP on Pentium 500.

Why cant windows have it programms recompiled for newer versions instead, like they do of unix.