In case you missed it, XP is a great OS. There is really no way around that. I understand many people have a hard time admitting that but it is true.

Also, the reason it will continue to go strong is because businesses will not be switching to 7 any time soon. That is not a slap at 7 either. We tested 7 here in the office. The verdict: 7 is a a great OS that gave us no problems but there was no reason to change. Why would we? XP "just works". Period.

Well, I can't deny Google rocked the decade as well.

Can anyone really deny this was the decade of Microsoft?

Personal
XP released in 2001, is still going strong and will be for quite some time.
7 released in 2009, is going strong and has received great reviews.

Professional
Server 2003 released in 2003, is still going strong and will be for quite some time.
Server 2008 released in 2008, is going strong and has received great reviews.

There was the Vista speed bump but overall this was without a doubt a Microsoft decade.

The Phish, from Vermont...are the poo poo.

don't believe anything M$ says.

You missed the point. My point is that slashDot did not need to post the stolen data directly. As I stated below, they could have just said something about the data being posted to website X and people could go find it.

However, humoring you...by your logic you would have no problem with me coming into your home and watching your TV right? That is rather trivial example. So let's say I broke into (hacked) your home and photo copied your entire life's worth of documents and posted them online. No problem with that right?

PS
It EVERY case (yours, mine and theirs) it is depriving people of privacy.

Probably.
They could have easily added a comment about the data being posted to website X and people, if they choose, could have gone and found it. As opposed to posting the data directly.

No.
I think the story (and the Palin one) is news worthy but not giving people easy access to the data.

I would just like to point out that it is COMPLETELY inappropriate for slashDot to post a link to what is, according to the story, STOLEN DATA. Yes, I know it is out on the internet so anyone could find it.

But seriously slashDot it seems highly inappropriate for you to give people easy access to stolen data.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Embrace, Extend, Enhance

I use http://keepass.info/
Does everything I want it to do.

All these stupid animal names that people are adopting.
Karmic Koala? Are you serious?

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