Don’t we think it might be a little bit of an over-dramatization to be talking about the collective “developers” of the world in one sentence and then say “Many of them jumped ship” in the next sentence? A few may have. I assure you that “many” did not jump ship. This statement just seems way off to me. I agree that “many” developers have shied from Vista, but we sure haven’t just forsaken Microsoft as a development environment.

That's right, I love Vista - even though I'll never use it. I upgraded from a PC to a Mac about a year and a half ago, motivated in part by a desire to acquire a decent computing platform and partly by my growing disgust with Bill Gates, who rivals George W. Bush as the biggest ASSH*LE on the planet.

I find it amazing and amusing that Bill Gates' increasingly bizarre games have introduced a new word into our vocabulary: BACKGRADING - as in backgrading from Vista to XP, or from Internet Exploder 7 back to IE 6. Quick, can anyone tell me which OS IE 6 or IE 7 works with?

In the meantime, Firefox, Opera and Microshaft are all coming out with major upgrades this year. The punch line? Mickeysoft is working hard just to catch up with the competition in the web standards arena.

Let's face it, Bill Gates and his attorney father are blinded by greed and arrogance. Their megalomania has helped Microsoft grow into a house of cards, dedicated to scr*wing its own customers. The crap is now so deep, Bill can scarcely figure out how to come up for air.

My tribute to Vista will be online at www.billysoft.org in a few days. In the meantime, I'm running for public office, making Bill Gates a campaign issue in his own backyard AND I've asked Hugo Chavez to add Bill Gates to his hit list at http://www.viva-chavez.com/Topics/Chavez_vs_Gates/

I know, my project sounds pretty far out, but it's no more bizarre than Bill Gates. What a freak.

I enjoyed your "article." It was bried and to the point - and you didn't insult my intelligence by calling Bill Gates a philanthropist. As a former teacher here in Seattle, I can tell you stories about the things Bill Gates, Inc. does to children.

David Blomstrom