Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> MS... doesn't. Their goal is just to make things look impressive, and do
>> enough to sell the product. Its not until it becomes obvious that they
>>
> 
> Part of this has been disgussed here before - MS lives by selling
> software (and hardware) and most of computer users don't have a clue of
> what's happening under the bonnet, so they have to do (also) visual
> changes (which aren't always improvements) to make people see a
> difference to older system. Hence one goal automatically is to make
> things look impressive.
> 
> -Aero


And, if they where doing something more than just sticking the "shell" 
of this:

http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=technology&c=news&l=on&pic=080324-aptera-car-02.jpg&cap=The+electric+hybrid+Aptera+(greek+for+%22wingless+flight%22)+is+a+3-wheeled+motorcycle+registered+with+DOT+and+the+California+DMV.+The+production+model+will+go+85+mph+and+get+300+mpg%2C+the+company+states.+Credit%3A+Aptera.com&title=

on this:

http://www.omnieye.com/mc/ad-pics/22140345.jpg

I might be a bit more impressed. ;) lol

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