even Microsoft admits Vista sucks

Don't tell me I didn't warn you. But it's all coming out in the lawsuit now.

Even some of Microsoft Corp.'s top officials struggled to make Windows Vista work smoothly when it was released, according to internal e-mails released Wednesday.

The messages, unsealed in a lawsuit against the company, show that Vista's early problems with hardware and software compatibility affected more than just average PC users. The e-mails also illustrate how the company will try to avoid such issues in the next Windows release.

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One February 2007 exchange started with an e-mail to Ballmer from Microsoft board member Jon Shirley, who explained that he upgraded one of his computers to Vista only to find it was experiencing problems working with two of Microsoft's own MSN applications. Shirley wrote that he wasn't upgrading his other computer because of a lack of hardware drivers.

Which reminds me, how is that MacOS 10.5.2 upgrade going? Heh. (Note that I am still a happy Tiger user.)

ha ha!

I guess the OS must be Vista:

The downtown Seattle bus tunnel is closed because of a failure of the computer system that controls tunnel operations.
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All of the systems in the tunnel — such as ventilation, lighting and signals — are controlled by a computer system installed during the recent retrofit of the tunnel. That computer system is currently down, and there was not yet an estimate of when it will be restored.

Update: After re-opening for a day, the tunnel was closed again on Wednesday (Dec. 19) and will remain closed at least through Friday. So far, the newspapers have not reported what "computer system problems" entails.

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Okay, I've updated to the"new" blogger and and looking to see if this is gonna mess things up. Ooh, I do like that there are labels now! Let's see if I remember to use them!