Is Windows XP for you? ‘…(F)or Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates to call Windows XP a “major Windows
release,” which he did again this week, is disingenuous, in my opinion. It might be major, in
terms of how many marketing dollars Microsoft plans to spend on the product, but
feature-wise, this is a minor upgrade to Windows Me and Windows 2000 Professional.

Perhaps Gates feels he is justified in calling Windows XP “major” because Microsoft is taking
a major gamble with XP to help rejuvenate the PC market.’ ZDNet And WinXP to include pirate music terminator. As the wag writing the news item notes: “Think of it. An operating system designed to lose data!” The Register