Your link shows Bill complaining that microsoft was bringing consistency to the hardware world that us nasty freeloaders were going to benefit from.
A buggy firmware that misreports its state is not something microsoft wants anymore than we do. Or put another way, a buggy firmware is the exact opposite of what microsoft was trying to do.
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Re: HCL?
Date: 2011-11-04 05:46 am (UTC)A buggy firmware that misreports its state is not something microsoft wants anymore than we do. Or put another way, a buggy firmware is the exact opposite of what microsoft was trying to do.