Then maybe by 2010 all the results of history on the media scene will be in, maybe they will back off from DRM, and take some other focus. but what they learned from Vista SP1 gets applied to Windows 7 (anyone got a codename yet?). Suppose just for a moment that Vista NEVER works. Now XP is their heavy duty workhorse while they experiment with their new codebase. I even had some flash devices that I had to return until the factory shipped ones with newer firmware. Then in the early days, I saw a lovely crash&burn act on XP *SP2* until everyone repaired their firmware. I barely heard of Win Me - consecutive tips told me to get Win2000, which lasted me through 2.5 OS changes from MS. I bet someone got utterly crushed when they had to switch codebases during that dev setback. They were getting serious heat from inactivity. They HAD to get Vista out, period, and rely on their patented brand of bluster to get through it. They're somehow getting us to pay for their beta testing. They can play a variant of GoodGuy/BadGuy by having a "Sacrificial OS" every 8 years. Suppose someone is thinking Big Picture in some kind of twisted sense. We harp on MS a lot, but they ARE clever in certain ways. Maybe they don't care at all about deployment of Vista.
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