I wonder how long it took them to do this...

I also wonder how long it would take them to make DX10 work in Windows XP, which I'm sure would have had a much greater impact.

I dualboot Vista and XP on my desktop and I use Vista solely for gaming with DirectX 10. I would loveeee to use XP for everything and not have both OS's at the same time.

I guess that's probably too much to ask. Oh wait. Apparently Microsoft has an Alpha for DX10 on XP... ... Maybe I stand corrected?

OK I understand that the grease gun went off in the bag and covered the tools with goo and what not.

But... why not go inside before attempting to clean the stupid things off? I mean, the tools are still usable, if a little gunked up...

Kudos to NASA for having two sets of tools, one for each astronaut. ... Wait... You say they only have those two sets? No backups? ... ... -_-

Seriously?

What's next? If my PC crashes because your software is atrocious is that going to cost me too?

I'm an hourly employee and this pisses me off. If I'm in the building and can't be elsewhere then you WILL be paying me. It's ridiculous. There's plenty of stuff to be done while waiting for a machine to boot anyways. Talk to coworkers, get a feel for whats going to happen that day, etc.

What about all the people who go off and go for a smoke? Half the time they don't clock out for their smoke break. I don't smoke, and therein get more done, but we're being treated the same?

Gimme a break. Seriously.

Take a week off. Both of you.

Come back the next week, see how much the production figures dropped, then say "That's how much we're worth." :P

In terms of units or moneys, can't be those results.

I don't know how you can even attempt to draw a parallel to that.

Comparing Google functionality to water. That's ridiculous. Water is fundamentally necessary to life. Google is not.

Did we manage before Google came around? You bet.
Would we cope if Google closed their doors tomorrow morning? You bet.

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Microsoft, like any other company, does not REALLY have an obligation to customers, they can close whenever they want. They shouldn't be able to disable software that you have PAID for without notice. What DRM'd music store attempted to close their doors and disable their DRM servers? Yahoo I think it was.

Corporations have an obligation to stockholders, and that's it. To think otherwise is completely naive.
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