Re: Shopping at AS400 sites (Microsoft goof)

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was also on their website. Shortly after it was mentioned in this list
(and perhaps other places), it disappeared from the website. I hope no one
from the list gloated to MS.   :-(   Sometimes we should not tell folks
when they have a problem!

Cheers

Vern

At 10:18 PM 12/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> If any of you have Windows XP (home edition or Professional)
> there is a "Tour" (tutorial) on the CD, and in there, at least in some
> versions, there is a section that talks about how "scaleable" and
> "secure" Windows-XP is... and there is a picture of a very large,
> tan, IMPI CISC AS/400, complete with the Malcolm Baldridge
> Award sticker, and in the background, you can clearly see a
> "real" 5250 terminal (green-screen).  D'Oh!
>
> IBM should thank Microsoft for all the free publicity!
>
> And, since Microsoft "burned" this onto who-know-how-many
> hundreds-of-thousands of CDs, it will be very hard for them to
> ever get rid of it completely, let alone, live it down! :-)
>
> Mark