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I paid 250 € for Win XP pro OEM.

Yesterday I received my long awaited Summer of Express prize. I'm very happy with the prize, but not really with what I've received: a french version of the X-box, X-Box Live & Halo 2 'version français'.
It's kind of logical because the whole package was sent from France, they probably didn't have a dutch version of the box or a UK version of the game.

I clearly stated my language of choice but still something went wrong.

So, what do I do now:
- Sent it back to France?
- Go to local gamestore and try to trade it with the right language?
- Install everything and hope there's an option to switch the language settings to Dutch for the system, a dutch version included in Live disc and English for Halo 2 (But when this fails I can't revert to the first or second option because every seal would be broken)?

/rant

Makes me mad too, especially if you know that Ms didn't write it from scratch. 90% of the XP code came from Windows 2000 and 90% of the 2000 code came from NT4 while 90% came from ...
Same goes for Office.

It could be a problem with your monitor, your videocard or your system becoming unstable because of overheating.

sbc wrote:

To truly know the security of IE, there should be a public bug reporting site, like there is for Firefox and Mozilla (Bugzilla). Bugzilla lists security vulnerabilities (simply listed as 'security hole'), but only trusted developer get to see the specifics. I'm sure the list of known bugs for IE is bigger than that of Firefox (as there is probably more code).

I don't believe this!
I just received a newletter from Electronic Arts to promote Need for Speed. When I clicked on the email to see the "autopreview" a video started to play immediately within the page. How could this happen even if I have the security settings in the default restricted mode?

This is a part of the html that caused the behavior:

1. Mousegestures,
2. DotFuscator Pro,
3. Speech recognition for coding (not only for menu commands!),
4. Decent Windows Installer project creations
5. and patches.

Sven Groot wrote:

Q2 2005 at the earliest, I guess.

While I'm watching the X-Box commercials all the time on tv my hands get itchy to play Halo 2 myself. But unfortunately the X-Box hasn't arrived yet, so can you please stop playing (temporary) Halo and let me join the fun too? (Sorry to sound impatient.)