Thurrott dismisses WPA as being an inconvenience to 'only a vast minority of users,' and minimizes the fact that you have to call Microsoft and reactivate your system if you upgrade your hardware too often. TMO Forum member firefly pointed us to a review of Windows XP that reads like a (very long) excerpt from Microsoft's marketing materials, a fact which Mr. Allchin as the Microsoft executive who was initially charged by his masters with floating the trial balloon for Microsoft's anti-Open Source smear campaign. Thurrott, but his site must be popular in the Windows world as he was unlucky enough to snag an interview with Jim ' Open Source Is Un-American' Allchin. Paul Thurrott runs a site that imaginatively called 'Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows.' Other Winheads, poor misguided souls that they are, actually suffer the illusion that Microsoft is in some way innovative. For one thing, we are told that some Windows users actually like Windows, though that remains an unconfirmed rumor. We have long been used to a world of wackiness from the PC community. And it's primed for hundreds of millions of users just waiting for a reason to upgrade. But in the meantime, we've got the best solution right here, right now.

Surely, those platforms will catch up to XP, someday, in areas such as digital media integration, the task-based user interface, and the like. The offending quote we include below has been changed a bit, and now reads:Īnd for competitors such as Mac OS X and Linux, where innovation often has lately equated to simply copying the feature set of Windows, the bar has been raised yet again, this time to stupefying heights. Thurrott has updated his review after we published this piece.

[ Update 12:40 PM CDT: Observer Richard pointed out in the comments that Mr. Windows Site Praises XP, Says Mac OS X & Linux Are But Copycats Of Windows īy Bryan Chaffin, 1:40 PM EDT, September 6th, 2001

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