Re: Jim was Right
just out of date
From: "King_Dovregubben" <King_Dovregubben@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Mon
13 Aug 2001 23:46:35 -0700
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Um... no he wasn't. He would have been correct if he had said, "one of 500,000 technology columnists, most of whom could not locate the CPU in a PC given a motherboard layout, heard a rumor that Office 10 would be subscription-based and rather than check facts, printed it up in an effort to be first. Sort of like when the news networks declared Gore the winner of Florida, then Bush, then said 'We are morons. Why do you listen to us?'".
 
Here a little clue for you. Most of what passes for news in tech rags is of a quality that would make National Enquirer editors piss their pants.
 
As for the "news item" you thrust as proof,  there are two problems.
 
1. It doesn't even name a source. "Microsoft's spokesperson"? What the fuck is that?
2. The imbecile who wrote the article can't seem to tell the difference between WINDOWS XP and OFFICE XP. Check out the headline.
 
As for the date of the article, who cares? Jimbo didn't even know that Office 10 had shipped months ago.
 
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Subject: Jim was Right, just out of date

Jim was correct in his statement that Microsoft was planning on releasing XP on a subscription basis... but his source (yep... he had a real true to life source) was outdated.  Happens to all of us at times... a lot of sites don't include a date that an article is posted.  But it appears that at some point Microsoft WAS considering selling XP on a subscription basis, but later axed the idea (dodged the suicide attempt, is my guess).
http://www.insiderreports.com/StoryPage.ASP_Q_ChanID_E_SO_A_StoryID_E_20001666 covers the part about the idea being left on the cutting room floor (for now, it says, but again, this article might be rather old).
So, why don't you all get off his back and move on with your lives... he had a source, he was sharing valid info he found online, and as he said, he had read it long enough ago that he could not remember exactly where (you think YOU could remember a URL like that?) so admit that he was at least partially right, and lets get on to a better subject... only 3 months and 8 days to go, right?  Lets see if we can go that long without F***ING KILLING EACHOTHER... deal?  Although, I HAVE bled a lot so far tonight... so getting a little more on my shirt wouldn't matter too much (it's red already, anyways)... *smirk*
 
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