ok... let's see now, on the 17th we saw this:

"The $500 million campaign is designed to prepare the way for big product rollouts later this year and next that include Windows Vista Enterprise Edition, Office 2007 Enterprise Edition, Exchange 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and other products."
eWeek - In the Crosshairs–IBM Is Target of Microsoft Marketing Blitz

and now, just a couple of days later we're getting this little gem:

"The unthinkable has happened: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista yet again."
Vista Delayed Again

ummm..... has anyone else thought that maybe some of the $500 million might have been better spent on some QA, some testing and maybe a little overtime... or better still, spend a few cents on a phone call to your CEO so he doesn't look like a complete monkey who has no idea what's going on inside his own company...

Bill Gates - the man who caused billions to ponder just exactly where it was that they would "like to go today" has bagged out the OLPC project hoping to provide a laptop to every child in need, the $100 laptop.

""If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type," Gates said."
CNN.com - Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop - Mar 16, 2006

BG seems to think that it's a useless piece of technology as it doesn't have a big enough screen, can't store heaps of data, doesn't rely solely on an AC/DC power source... oh, and probably that it doesn't bear the M$ badge somewhere.

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