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Steve Jobs demonstrates Apple I, at Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, NJ (28/29 August 1976)

Guys from 37 signals write about their experience with program installation on Windows Vista. To give you an idea how it works, here is only part of installation process, as described by the writer:

First I have to make sure my copy of Windows is “genuine,” which involves installing an ActiveX component (yuck!) or downloading and running a 1.35 MB program that takes 15 seconds to load and forces me to copy and paste a code into a tiny text field. Once I’m past the validation step, I click to download and run the Script Debugger installer, which leads me through six confirmation dialogs before actually starting the installation.

But the best of all is Ryan’s description of Windows:

Windows in general has been like a confused and slow person. Vista is like a person who lost their meds and is trying their best to ignore the voices

Gotta lov’em, 37 signals