Linked by John Doe on Thu 15th Feb 2007 17:56 UTC
Shock and awe; Windows Vista has been released to the hounds (that would be us). As just about every publication has reiterated a thousand times over it took 5+ years of design and development and cost USD 5.5 billion both directly and indirectly. We were promised (maybe not even promised, but bullshitted) a revolutionary operating system and what we got is for you to determine for yourselves. I personally think it's a disappointment to say the least.
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2005-10-02
It's allegedly an urban legend.
However, I must admit it'll be different to unprove the statement, so one could correctly claim that the lack of solid evidence suggests it is a legend.
OTOH - it took approx. 15 years for Bill Gates to deny having said it, and that suggests he did say it. Though the explanation could be he didn't know of it until later, and only denied it when the story grew really big. In that case it's a classic case of poor strategy.