… that we all used to use this ass product call Windows 98. My grandparents’ PC (a slim compaq presario which we paid roughly 1500 for a good 5 years ago) has good ol’ windows 98 SE. Amazingly, it hasn’t crashed yet, but it can’t really even deal with the sound device too well (skype failes to get a lock on the sound output sometimes.) It’s hard to believe that our standards were so low. I don’t get the impression that Mac land was much better either.. circa Windows 98, it was still System 8 or System 9, which didn’t have protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking (I think, and if I’m wrong, I don’t care.. all I know is the crap that we had at my high school crashed all the time). Windows NT 3.51 all the way baby.

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    What’s funny is that if Microsoft had released something decent back then, we wouldn’t have to deal with Linux and its corresponding army of retards.
    On the other hand, we wouldn’t have Linux User Groups either. And then what would we have to read about…

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    After meeting a bunch of people from Microsoft this time around in Seattle, I got the distinct impression that the culture there (then, and to some extent, even now), promotes shipping semi-tested products with known issues if it means being able to meet deadlines. So if you think its scary how people like Google and Yahoo launch web-products in beta which are only half-ready, consider how microsoft did this with stuff with products people actually paid for.
    Of course, they may be overcompensating with Vista this time around..

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    Not to be left out, there’s Windows ME, which apparently my uncle uses on his PC. He installs skype, and then it bluescreens on startup. I guess they didn’t test ME with any startup programs.
    I’m also amazed that Firefox and Thunderbird seem to run just fine on 98/ME. Even all the localization stuff works just fine.

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