The article says that M$ usually makes features and then pulls them last minute, but that isn?t entirely true.
Unless something was just so buggy that it wasn?t worth implementing, M$ has always pulled the more usable features to offer in the more expensive flavors of Windows then filled the home editions with useless bells and whistles that look good on paper and in practical application fail miserably without upgrades, add-on packages, or a signing your life over to M$. In many cases, they even leave the buggy apps there unadvertised so that ?clever? MCSE?s can geek talk about all the great hidden features in Windows 7 a year from now. So honestly, a program that copies something that has been available for free in iTunes and Winamp for close to 7 years on any OS except restricts the content you can stream, is immensely difficult to setup, and forces people to buy Windows 7 for all their computers, sounds like a lot more of the same.
A person would be a fool to buy Windows 7 or Vista. I just hope more people continue to switch to Linux and pirate XP until M$ does a little R&D, stops using their size to bully sales, and maybe learns some ethics.
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