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• @Sigma55:
  
  Please do not take my comments as an attack upon you or your values. I was brining up the point that text messaging is just a real time loose and fast developing technology, and a time date stamp isn't exactly critical. If it's so important, then using normal email would make more sense, yes?
  
  As mentioned by others, the number of people affected is very small and there's no real concensus of what the cause is, or even if it is just one carrier or technology type. It could be a Windows Mobile issue, or could be just one carrier or even a phone's firmware update. Before making the assumption that this is a Microsoft problem, I think the prudent thing to do is get more information and deteremine what common symptoms and environment are in place.
  
  Once again, there was no intnetional attack on you- that was a msitaken impression on your part. I apologize if you didn't understand that. In reply to: "Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016"

  January 5, 2010

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• I partially believe this effect is because DVD's / Blu-Ray disc are getting *more* expensive with each release. Just a few years ago, a first release of a movie on DVD was $15. Now it's $24- and that's at Walmart. If you want Blu-Ray, add more money to it.
  
  Nah, when it's a $10-15 purchase, I would add the title to my library. At $24? I'll skip it. At that point, it might be cheaper to pay the $8-10 to go watch it in the theater instead when I want to see it, or rent it online for download.
  
  I much prefer phsyical DVD's though, and I do watch those bargain shelves. In reply to: "Box office sales outpace disc sales in 2009"

  January 5, 2010

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• Unfortunately, the Past History Interference Prevention Act of 2014 prevents them from doing that.
  
  Sorry. :/ In reply to: "Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016"

  January 5, 2010

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• "There's a Mac for that."
  
  Okay, THAT was worth coming here for that pun alone. :) In reply to: "Apple's App Store tops 3 billion downloads"

  January 5, 2010

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• Apple has made it a standing policy to not release this information except as vague claims at conferences. Nobody knows the real numbers. In reply to: "Apple's App Store tops 3 billion downloads"

  January 5, 2010

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• ". Every time an app updates on my iPhone, it re-downloads the whole application."
  
  Same thing if you have to restore you phone or have to reimage it. You download all your apps again.
  
  I've downloaded the same checkbook app- oh, two dozen times since I got my Touch a year ago? Now with the iPhone, I'm downloading it again. But I only paid for it *ONCE*. Now multiply that by all the apps I've gotten and I can say I've downloaded hundreds of apps, but only PAID perhaps $30 total.
  
  Is that a success or not? Guess it all depends on how you spin it.
  
  A fire station has 1000 incident calls for example in given period. How do you spin it?
  
  "Fire station reaches a record 1000 calls!"
  "Fire station fails to put out the fire the first 200 times and has to keep coming back 800 more times!"
  
  Both could be fully accurate, but it's all how you want to spin it. In reply to: "Apple's App Store tops 3 billion downloads"

  January 5, 2010

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• "Apple didn't break down how many of the downloaded apps were paid and how many were free"
  
  Well, then it's a pointless effort to establish the success of the Apps Store as a commercial venture really. I imagine Toyota would be very popular if they gave away cars instead of charging for them. In reply to: "Apple's App Store tops 3 billion downloads"

  January 5, 2010

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• I think any enterprise company supporting lots of workstations would notice the difference the first time they had a question or needed help with OpenOffice and looked around for the company they bought it from- oh yes, that's right, it was free and is worth exactly what you paid for it.
  
  Right.
  
  There's a reason why enterprise class businesses buy software- the support that goes with it.
  
  "Let me get this straight: Micro$oft is asking $499 for a word processor and a spreadsheet?"
  
  Well now, if you had a real word processor with spell check, it wouldn't have let you misspell "Microsoft" so badly. :) In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"

  January 5, 2010

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• This is a growing problem across many different OEM's. Look at Adobe for a classic example of changing the product versions consistently with huge markups between them.
  
  I prefer simple, but unfortunately that often means a company will simplify in the wrong direction- the more expensive one. :/ In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"

  January 5, 2010

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• Just out of curiousity, what Fortune 500 company is that, RompStar? I'd like to confirm your claims since they smack of bovine excretement. It might make for an interesting article for CNET too.
  
  Back up your comments with a name of that company and you can have all sorts of bragging rights, and that's what's important to your ego, yes? In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"

  January 5, 2010

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