Microsoft without Windows

[Dave Land]

And in other news, the US Gummint investigates the upcoming Windows 7  
operating system, to see that it meets the terms of the 2003 "Final  
Judgements"...

US antitrust regulators examine Windows 7

(http://url.ie/gwy)

Chilling words from the article for anyone who writes code (or manages  
people who do so) for a living:

     "This is designed to ensure that "bugs fixed in Vista do not
     reappear in the next operating system", according to a
     Department of Justice statement...

I sure wouldn't want government regulators snooping around in code  
that I or my coworkers write to ensure that bugs fixed in one version  
don't reappear in the next version. If they did, I'd be writing this  
on the library computer at Leavenworth, I suppose.

Dave

Disclaimer: This email contains uncorroborated and unreliable  
statements about the quality of software at a certain Internet company  
that should not be construed to represent the actual quality of said  
software from said company and which do in no way represent the  
official position of said company with respect to the quality of said  
software.