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Comment Re:Horrible marketing at work. (Score 1) 474

Since here we're still on XP and only now considering migrating to Windows 7, I think it will be a lot longer than that. It won't be until Microsoft drops support for Windows 7 anyway. That's the only reason my company is ditching Windows XP.

Comment Re:But are we? (Score 1) 662

1. Cars these days have higher compression and are more difficult to turn over by hand.
2. The risk of kick-back breaking your wrist.
3. The fact that with a modern fuel injection system, if your battery is flat you are going nowhere, even if you can crank over the engine, because you need enough power to pressurize the fuel rail.
4. The fact that car designers don't want to give the impression that a crank start is likely to be needed.

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