Andy, good to see you back here, I'm always worried about you being dragged away somewhere by lawyers. You can always say you can't remember, your stuff goes back a lot longer and always seemed pretty obscure to me. Or maybe a higher net worth is required for deposition dependent amnesia.
Facts can be inconvenient. The fact is that, as a percentage of the total cost of a machine, the OS has gone up considerably while the hardware has gone down in price.
Well, I always got to quote Ronald Reagan, facts are stupid things. It's certainly true what you say about hardware and software, though. And those hardware guys have actual manufacturing costs, too. Intel went out and replaced all those "low quality" Pentiums with the obscure floating point bug, and these days the overclockers are all having fun running certain "low quality" Intel parts at 50% over their rated speed. But with the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience, you better be ready to shell out for the next release. Some day, it might suck less!
I guess you weren't kidding when you said you burned your bridges. Got any friends left in the company? How's morale holding? We're always up for juicy insider gossip. Then again, discretion is probably the better part of valor, professionally speaking.
Cheers, Dan. |
