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Windows XP Sparks a War of Words
When his upgrade went wrong, a former Italian president took his
complaints directly to Bill Gates.
Philip Willan, IDG News Service
Monday, December 10, 2001
New software programs are always likely to encounter teething problems,
but it's better if they don't happen to your most high-profile
customers.
In Italy that category includes Francesco Cossiga, a former president, a
technology buff, and a pungent polemicist. It was therefore unfortunate
that Cossiga's personal computer froze last month, shortly after the
installation of Microsoft's new jewel, Windows XP  Home.
Cossiga has served as prime minister and in the defense and interior
ministries and cultivates a passion for espionage issues.
 Accustomed to the low blows of the Italian political arena, he is a
lively orator with a withering sense of irony who always relishes a
ruckus. So it was little surprise when he promptly wrote to Microsoft's
founder to inform him of his technological contretemps.
"Advised by the experts of the Senate, of which I am a life member, I
had
your new program Microsoft XP Home installed on my very powerful
personal computer, which went into tilt after two days," he protested in
a fax to Redmond. "Neither my friends nor the Italian subsidiary of
Microsoft can solve the problem, with the risk that the computer's hard
disk will have  to be reformatted with the loss of all the data it
contained."
 Straight to Mr. Gates Cossiga wound up his letter, addressed to Bill
Gates in person, with a word  of advice: "Perhaps, my dear, young Mr.
Gates, before putting your new
 products on the market with so much publicity you should have them
tested for longer and with greater care."
He was still in a belligerent mood when he was interviewed by La
Repubblica on November 23. Reports that it was a hardware rather than a
software problem and that the difficulty had been resolved were untrue,
he told the Rome daily.
 "That's not the case: until a few minutes ago my computer was still out
of  action and for a fault in the program, not in the hard disk," the
ex-president insisted. Cossiga said he feared he was going to lose his
entire archive and would take legal action against Microsoft if that
happened.
Fortunately for relations between Rome and Redmond the problem was
rapidly resolved, Microsoft insisting that it had been an  installation
error all along. The dispute was concluded by the end of the month with
a chivalrous exchange of letters between the Italian  politician and the
U.S. software magnate.

 Monday, December 10, 2001
e in sintesi?
Taita

 e in sintesi?
nieeente...... il cossiga se l'è presa perchè
dopo aver installato WinXP ha perso tutte
le foto hard che aveva sull'HD...... :O)
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Ciao
Quelo  :-)

 le foto hard che aveva sull'HD...... :O)
'AZZ,
C'č lo stesso pericolo per i miei filmati?
;-)
Taita

 ;-)
:-O
quali filmati?
VZ2bis  O:-)

 quali filmati?
si, si, proprio quelli che gli hai passato tu...
--
Kaiser®
See the stars, they're shining bright
Everything's alright tonight (DM)

 si, si, proprio quelli che gli hai passato tu...
aehm...... li ha passati lui a me...... ;-)))
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Ciao
Quelo  :-)

 aehm...... li ha passati lui a me...... ;-)))
Dopo che kaiser me li ha messi dai suoi cd sul mio "hard" disk!
Taita

 Dopo che kaiser me li ha messi dai suoi cd sul mio "hard" disk!
auиии, non confondere gli mp3 con i video hard.....
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 auиии, non confondere gli mp3 con i video hard.....
La so la differenza, mi facesti vedere quel sorto di stereo  col video di
Pamela Anderson!
;-)
Taita

 ;-)
un video in un lettore mp3??? quando mai?
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 mi facesti vedere quel sorto di video di Pamela Anderson!
aarrgghhhh...... e ammè una copia? }:-)
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Ciao
Quelo  :-)

 aarrgghhhh...... e ammè una copia? }:-)
Bisogna avere il cuore forte, Què...
ce l'hai???
Taita

 ce l'hai???
aspè............. si... c'è!!!
VZ2bis ;-)