A WaPo columnist wishes Windows XP a happy fifth birthday, noting, "On a machine with a September 2001-vintage copy of Windows XP Home Edition, installing every bug-fix released as of August ballooned its Windows directory from 987 megabytes to 2.43 gigabytes." [Washington Post]
A Microsoft blogger explains why geopolitics forced the company to kill an intuitive UI feature: "The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map." [The Old New Thing]
Is Microsoft a gang of morons? Well yeah, according to classic comments in Windows source code leaked back in 2004. [Kuro5hin]
Wanna piss Microsoft off? Fix their software before they do. [ITWire]
