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Note: This is a chemical equation. US airstrikes + US tactical nuclear weapons -> (WMD war) + Iranian chemical & biological weapons + Hezbollah -> Sum of All Fears

A programmer's wife tells him to go to the grocery store. She says, "Buy a link of Kielbasa (sausage). And if there are eggs, buy a dozen." The programmer comes home with a dozen Kielbasa links. He says, "There were eggs."

Wait for SP1? Maybe by then Sinofsky will have fixed things.

Instead of pontificating, we should ask ourselves - is this realistically going to make you, personally, more likely to buy a Mac than a PC the next time around? How soon do you think that will be?

Do you remember the computer games that we used to play, before PC processors became capable of rendering high-graphics laden video games, and consoles became mainstream? All we had to go on (other than fantastic writing) was our imagination. Do you remember Adventure, Zork, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (when was the last time "eat bufferin" was something that you did in a game)? The commercial viability of this "interactive fiction" may be gone, but the tradition continues.