Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?

zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner. As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."

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Oversensitive MSFT Shills Everywhere Today

[FreeUser]

Bill and his mates..Huh? There's no Bill in the article. If this is a reference to Bill Gates, it has to be the most contrived jab at Microsoft in the history of this site.

Except it is only a jab in the minds of those who are oversensitive to past "jabs" of a much more deserving sort: Microsoft's monopoly, the manner in which they held back computing technology for over a decade, etc. etc.

Saying Bill and his mates might want one of these is a reference to their wealth, nothing more. Unless you equate wealth with something negative, there is no "jab" in this at all. Indeed, even most of the anti-microsoft crowd (a growing group if there ever was one, and for numerous good reasons) aren't angry at Bill's wealth, merely the manner in which he got it and the cost that has meant to the rest of us, particularly those of us who care about the technology itself.

So in short, get over yourself. The author wasn't even poking fun at Microsoft or Bill Gates at all, just at the pricetag of these new supersonic biz-jets. Wait until tommorow's story about Microsoft's latest atrocity before overreacting, why don't you.