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Redmond and the Four-Letter F-Word

It's "Fiji," for heaven's sake. This is a family newsletter! Anyway, apparently, Microsoft's codename of Fiji -- which the company is using for a forthcoming edition of Windows Media Center -- isn't actually going down all that well in...Fiji. Mary Jo Foley explains.

Posted by Lee Pender on July 01, 2008


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