Microsoft Responds to DOT Ban on Vista, Office, IE

roscoetoon writes "From the blog of Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's response to the DOT's charges? A corporate spokeswoman sent this statement, via e-mail: (caution: microbrain double-speak ahead) ... "We respect the customer's decision. As with any of our other Federal customers, it's our job to help DOT maximize the value of its Enterprise Agreement through the adoption of our technology. We are engaged with large, strategic customers across government at every level, and are working closely with them on these products through their participation in our Technical Adoption Programs.""

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fuck a nigga

[Asshat_Nazi]

gayer than shit on a dick!

my tax dollars hard at work...

[Bananatree3]

personally, I'd rather not see excess money spent on Micro$$oft Vi$ta. (notice my emphasis on $$$?). The DOT doesn't need Office 2007 Plus Ultra Deluxe to print worksheets. Nor is there really any advantage buying new computers to run Vista Aero, just to be "up to date".

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

It has been discovered through independent focus groups that Microsoft(TM) Vista is superior to all existing or previous operating systems. We have performed experiments on captive test subjects in a head to head comparison of Win 3.1, Minix, OS/8 and other dominant, advanced, operating environments. Our expert Psychologists and pathologists performed pre amd post-mortem evaluation and have show that Vista causes 12% less brain damage than PCP abuse.

Re:Really?

[Stephen Samuel]

Q: When did MS start using truly independent analysts? Would that part of the statement be necessary if they had no reputation for using paid shills? You obviously aren't using the MS definition of "independent". It's the industry standard, you know.

Q: Doesn't she mean that "they will eventually be forced to once again drink the koolaid?"
Just like most other Open Source Long Haired Smellies(tm).. there you go violating other people's trademarks again.

Q: Does anyone else remember that old Chinese curse? "May your life be exciting!"
Exciting and very, very pretty. Just sign here on the dotted line, and you'll have all the excitement you'll ever want.

- 500 guests for free food and drink and hopefully cheaper software != 500 new customers.
450 new customers, and 50 shills. (oops! did I say that out loud?)

- They obviously didn't spend much time on all the govt. agencies, schools, even countries that are not interested in using MS products anymore. A sales pitch is a sales pitch. I hope they got some good swag! As much as it takes. We don't have billions of dollars for nothing, you know.