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… but will it be any better than the beta version  I’ve been using? Maybe. Will I pay to find out? Not sure. So what do I know? I know that  Mashabl!’s lame coverage tells me nothing. Thanks for the Microsoft press release guys. I didn’t know you were a public-relations outlet for Bill Gates. Nice.

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For the 16th straight Quarter Microsoft has pissed away its money supporting online ventures like Bing! In the process Microsoft has also qualified for the Olympic predatory pricing event and is a favorite to take the Gold. By losing $2 Billion a year in order to take 3% of the search market away from Google Microsoft has to know that it’s time to quit. Right?

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Windows 7: Suckers!

Even by monopolist standards Microsoft is offensive.

According to a recent study by overpaid consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, Windows 7 will “change the personal computer industry forever.”Wow! How else will Windows 7 rock my world? By working trouble free? By preserving my data and ensuring a smooth transition from (yuch) Vista? Even better. Windows 7 will “break the link between the operating system and the hardware upgrade cycle for the first time in history.” 

To clarify, this means that in order to remedy the crappy performance of Vista, users will have to pay top dollar for Windows 7, hope for the best, and there’s a chance that they may not be forced to buy a whole new computer.

How do you guys do it? No, seriously – how do you guys get away with this every year? It’s bad enough that you feed us defective products and sell the fix in your next upgrade, that you treat your users like cattle, that you insult our intelligence by providing buggy software and not owning up to it; but now you’re making a virtue out of doing what you should have done right the first time?

Maybe it’s time for another antitrust suit …