Re: [PLUG] near total kablooie

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

> eric@lucii.org said:
> > Long story short:  Microsoft hardware is, in my experience, fragile and
> > overpriced - much like their software :-)

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:41:23PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> Mine is the exact opposite - I have mice of theirs running for years. (not
> optical ones, tho). Same for their Natural keyboards. And the Digital
> SideWinder joystick.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:58:05PM -0500, JP Toto wrote:
> You can pry my MS Natural keyboard pro from my cold dead hands! ;-)

Note that all of these things could be totally accurate since, with
a few minor exceptions, Microsoft has nothing to do with actually
making the hardware that they sell; they just OEM it.

(Even the X-Box is only pseudo-MS internal; cf, Wired article a few
months ago. I'll go check the reference if anyone's interested.
Fairly good explanation of short order manufacturing and how it's
changed over the past decade or so.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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