From: LD5SZRA on
I guess removing Newsgroup support would surpass that! And also
not supporting IE9 on Windows XP would give rivals an excellent
opportunity to catch up!

hth

Greg Russell wrote:
>

> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.

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From: Bob I on


Greg Russell wrote:

> In news:4be0b361(a)news.x-privat.org,
> Mr Baracuda <baracuda(a)slim.ws> typed:
>
>
>>so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>
>
> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters of the
> 21st Century" (so far, at least) in a recent Yahoo! news article, voted as
> such by the overwhelming majority of computing and technology news editors
> in the world that contributed to the vote.
>

http://www.zdnet.com/news/the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/177729

From: Frank Drew Leyda on
I don't have an opinion about Newsgroups versa Forums but

> Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort,
> consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to
> retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment
> with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search
> engines.
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Why less spam and easier to find....... ?

> Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform
> that will improve customer > satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a
> clean space.
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What do they mean by a "clean space" ?




From: Greg Russell on
In news:OAOrr0E7KHA.3196(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
Bob I <birelan(a)yahoo.com> typed:

>>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>>
>> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters
>> of the 21st Century" ...
>
> http://.../the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/...

The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum totat of time, even
in technological terms.




From: Frank Drew Leyda on

"Greg Russell" <grussell(a)example.con> wrote in message
news:84dkhsFf1uU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> In news:OAOrr0E7KHA.3196(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
> Bob I <birelan(a)yahoo.com> typed:
>
>>>> so we have a limited time to insult vista .....
>>>
>>> M$ Vista was named as one of "The Top Ten Technological Disasters
>>> of the 21st Century" ...
>>
>> http://.../the-top-10-it-disasters-of-all-time/...
>
> The 21st century most certainly doesn't comprise the sum totat of time,
> even
> in technological terms.
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