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  3. December 2002

RE: Shopping at AS400 sites (Microsoft goof)

Brand new Dell XP Professional machines still have that famous picture. 8->

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! :-)

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