Re: [PLUG] near total kablooie

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

No need to reference. You're pretty much spot on there. MS doesn't 
actually own any fabs to my knowledge. They contract manufacture stuff 
and stamp their name on it. I THINK Linksys makes there new networking 
hardware too....

In other fun news... I went to the Apple store in KOP for lunch today. 
Very nice. Friendly staff. Pretty fun. Maybe santa will give me an ibook 
for christmas :-)

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > 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.)


--
JP Toto
ViceClown@yahoo.com

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