Bill Gates cooks up plan to have UoC students switch to Vista.

Today Bill Gates came to speak on our campus. Access was restricted through a ticket lottery. Effectively, 99% of interested students and the rest of the world were left with the option of viewing a recording of the talk online.

Note the wmv file format. Also note that, when played on a mac (with or without Flip4Mac), it has no sound.

When I tried to download it for conversion, it gave me this:















My guess is it only plays on Vista, and this was all a scheme from Mr. Gates to get us to "up-grade" (get it?). Kind of like how the only way to get people to use MS Office 2007 is to force them, because, guess what - it's broken.

Vista not playing well with IPv6

"Microsoft acknowledges some 'compatibility issues,' but calls operating system its best ever"

In the meantime, vista machines are unable to send printer data over IPv6 without corrupting the data. That's quite a compatibility issue alright, when IPv6 is supposed to solve the looming IP shortage within years.

Common Microsoft™ *RTFM*! Or in this case: Read The F***** Specs.