Cringely’s geek week in review

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Feb 29, 20081 min

Swiss missed bank Julius Baer emerged from its cave just in time for Robert X. Cringely’s weekly wrap up. But its nemesis, WikiLeaks, “is hardly blameless. There seems to be a lack of adult supervision over there.”

Next up: Cringe has a hard time picking his favorite quotes pertaining to the lawsuit over “Vista capable” labeling among the many indicating that Microsoft executives were aware of how much of a dog Vista is.

My personal favorite: “No [vendors] believed we would ever really ship so they didn’t start work until late 2006 …”

“It reads like a greek tragedy,” Cringe writes in this Geek week in review.