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Time Mag Doesn't Love Vista

Recently, Newsweek interviewed Bill Gates and gave him an open forum to promote Vista and complain about those "lying" Mac ads. Time took a different approach, recently publishing a rambling and disjointed review of the new OS.

Despite some praise, the review -- in a rare moment of lucidity -- called Vista "an embarrassment to the good name of American innovation, but it's perfectly fine."

Posted by Doug Barney on February 07, 2007


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