Last week I was taking NYC subway and saw a maintenance worker tinkering with a 
metrocard machine.  It was open and going through some kind of 
rebooting-looking 
operation.  This was clearly considered a sensitive stage because there was an 
armed guard standing nearby.  I glanced at the machine's screen and to my 
amazement it wasn't any kind of Linux.  It was indeed Win XP.

 Alexey





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From: Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 1:39:23 PM
Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Developers are voting with their feet in 2011 
(destination Android).




On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:

in the mobile phone market, or any other market where microsoft is NOT blessed 
with a massive market share already. Everything else sucked barnacles.
You're glossing over quite a few other successful Microsoft products, such as 
the XBox, their keyboards, mice and controllers or the Surface (this one is 
more 
"good" than "successful" so far, but I expect this to change soon).

They certainly don't have a 100% success rate, but they have a decent track 
record of releasing successful products, even in brand new markets.

Claiming that their only successes come from them illegally leveraging their 
monopoly stopped being accurate about ten years ago.

-- 
Cédric



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