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Halloween Document Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the mu-ha-ha-ha dept.

GroundBounce writes: "The front page of LWN has an interesting three-year-after analysis of the predictions in the Halloween document, which was "leaked" from Microsoft around Halloween of 1998. It's interesting to see how their predictions have/have not panned out."

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  1. Why Halloween? by dido · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There's been a five-day long Microsoft-sponsored party that culminated last Wednesday for the Windows XP Launch. Other than the fact that BillG's birthday is on October 28, why does it seem that a lot of significant things seem to happen to them during Halloween?

    Other than the fact that working with MS software is a horrendous nightmare worthy of a horror movie in itself... :)

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    Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
  2. Re:A Microsoft conspiracy? by man_ls · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Over 7 million people don't use Windows. What kind of monopoly is that?

    How many people are there in the United States with computers? How many people in the world? I'd imagine that 150 million people in the US using Windows outweighs 7 million not using it.