more microsoft bashing For some reason, my company felt the need to upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Apparently someone told one of the IT guys that 2000 was four years ago. And what year is it now? Why, it's the year XP, of course! I think Microsoft removed the dates from its Windows line so people would no longer be ashamed of running the old system. "You're running Windows 95? Please don't talk to me, I only hang out with Windows 98 or higher people." So they have gone the route of the car manufacturers, proving that there is no longer one ounce of creativity left in product marketing. Remember when cars had really cool names, like Supra, Stingray, and Grand Vitara? Well, now they all sound more like the latest model of robot than any car you would want to drive. A4, RX330, CL55AMG. How boring! So Microsoft is undoubtedly going to call its next product another futuristic combination of letters and/or numbers like KD3874BG.

Of course the latest version of Office is no longer Office XP, it's Office 2003. So maybe the conclusion is just that Microsoft is a company that does things that make no sense.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 10/19/2004