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by xpe 94 days ago
Definitely a wild read. Bill has a certain style of writing; here is my favorite part:

  > So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is
  > this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?
  >
  > So they told me that using the download page to 
  > download something was not something they anticipated.
  >
  > They told me to go to the main page search button
  > and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).
  >
  > I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after
  > 6 seconds of waiting up it came.
  >
  > I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go
  > do the download.
  >
  > In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to
  > solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a
  > bunch of incantations.
That's just the beginning.