Am I the only one that read the statement? It seems to me that they are collecting information. In fact McDonald's doesn't deny they attacked him, they only state that their employees denied it. It's an important distinction. Their employees are quite naturally saying, "We're innocent!" while Mann's saying "They're guilty." Mann provided proof that one of their statements - namely that they didn't damage any of his property - is incorrect. But it doesn't seem McDonalds, as a whole, is calling Mann a liar. Here's the statement:
We share the concern regarding Dr. Mann’s account of his July 1 visit to a McDonald’s in Paris. McDonald’s France was made aware of Dr. Mann’s complaints on July 16, and immediately launched a thorough investigation. The McDonald’s France team has contacted Dr. Mann and is awaiting further information from him.
In addition, several staff members involved have been interviewed individually, and all independently and consistently expressed that their interaction with Dr. Mann was polite and did not involve a physical altercation. Our crew members and restaurant security staff have informed us that they did not damage any of Mr. Mann’s personal possessions.
While we continue to learn more about the situation, we are hearing from customers who have questions about what happened. We urge everyone not to speculate or jump to conclusions before all the facts are known. Our goal is to provide a welcoming environment and stellar service to McDonald’s customers around the world.
> Oh. The thing everyone and their brother is told to NEVER check!
By whom? Almost no home users installed Windows 7 themselves. They all have copies pre-installed by OEMs who all left this on. And as I've said above, on corporate networks this is turned on and off at the Domain level (and I haven't seen one business do this except a few that were pirating Windows) , so corporate users CAN'T turn this off. Based on my experience, I'd guess 70-80% of Windows 7 installs left MCEIP on. The only big exception would be OEMs pirating WIndows in China, etc.
MCEIP was opt-out, not opt-in, and anyone joined to a domain can't opt-out. So it's pretty clear that the majority (even pirates) of Windows 7 boxes were reporting stats.
It's not focus grouped. MS tracks behavior in Windows 7 through the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Home users have to explicitly disable this and if you're joined to a domain (corporate network) this can only be disabled by admins. So most people were probably reporting.
And that data showed that people were navigating the Start Menu, as opposed to using shortcuts pinned to the Taskbar and Desktop, less and less.
If you're using the Start Menu a lot then you're in a distinct minority of Windows 7 users.
Q: Do you like movies with gladiators? A: My favorite type is comedy. I like the "Naked Gun" series best. Heck, any movie with Leslie Nielsen it is tops in my book!
Interesting that your quotes comes from "Airplane!", a movie starring Leslie Nielsen.
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