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[Charles Olsen <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Hainstock wrote:
> That's a great idea. I definitely think that this type of thing should 
> be in there. But I didn't mean how to do Win2Lin things, I meant address 
> new MS plans/schemes/announcements/whatever. You know, like "Blah blah 
> blah is in Windows 7" or "Linux is an intellectual virus..." or even new 
> accomplishments.

Yes, I definitely want something like this. Especially when Microsoft is 
screwing over their users, like in this article of mine 
(http://charlesolsen.typepad.com/charles_olsens_writings/2008/10/whose-pc-is-it.html) 
where I talked about how Microsoft ignored users' settings for Windows 
update, and updated PCs even when users had auto-update turned off.

And whatever Steve Ballmer is up to is usually entertaining.

But it wouldn't be just MS bashing. If they do get something right, we 
can mention that too. I don't want to get a reputation for arbitrarily 
hating Microsoft. If we get to that point, then everything we say is 
suspect.

That, incidentally, is how they see me at the office. I spend most of 
the day fighting with MS Word 2003, a program that keeps finding new 
ways to screw me over. I spend a lot of the day cussing at Word.

One day recently I was talking to someone, and I said "Microsoft OneNote 
is a good program." The woman in the cubicle next to me almost fell out 
of her chair. She was astonished that I had said something positive 
about Microsoft, or at least a Microsoft program.