Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:56 -0600,
Ray <ray.list@powerweb.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] auto-000073684747@powerweb.net>:
> On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote:
> > Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is
> > getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the
> > Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do
> > something as drastic.
> >
> > It's like watching somebody involved in a bad marriage: I'll just
> > stick by him/her, they're bound to change. It's worth it, if only
> > for the kids.
> >
> > It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up.
>
> the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the
> marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews before
> the actual scheduled release(was it 2006?). if you heard there was a
> movie/game/tech that had marketing running for 3 years before
> release, wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage to you too?
..looks like they think they have us simmering in a legal pot thru their
marketing "development cycle", see http://groklaw.net/. ;-)
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