Is this really news????

[MrsGoof]

but did he get the last word in

[Joe Black]

You didn't either Mrs Goof. And yes that's a scary, scary picture, the one with the horse that is.

Just the sort of clueless, yet opinionated jerk who gives IT monkeys a bad rap.

What is it with the Beeb these days, they seem as if they're on a self-destuctive mission to find the worst possible people to back up their stories?

Or is this the kinship which those who work there see in themselves...

[mcquiggd]

Oh come on, the BBC is relentlessly anti-Microsoft... every opportunity they have to scream 'dangerous flaws in Internet Explorer', 'man eaten alive by Windows XP', etc, gets put up on the website...

Basically a bunch of politically correct linux luvvies given funding by the taxpayer, as thats the only way they could survive in IT. And that guy in the non-story is probably their mate. Their only one.

[thief]

Man gets a refund without having to argue or threaten anyone for it:
xp refund

"I've cost Dell £50, not Microsoft, which is a slightly annoying," said Mr Mitchell

I guess that the BBC's Bill Thompson is right now on his way to the man's house to gently fellate him for an hour or so for sticking one up on the evil computer corps.

Good luck to him. Bill Gates must be crying right now that microsoft has lost £50. If its dell, I feel sorry for them, they are doing as bad as b&q.