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I hate people like you. People who feel the need to be so negative when others are trying to look on the bright side.
The olympics may be commercialized but they also featured amazing sports like swimming, running, gymnastics, weight lifting--- these sports aren't normally featured on TV and for 2 weeks, we get treated to the best these sports have to offer.
And people like you just have to ruin it with your 2 cents.
Yes but what happens when everyone wants different things? How can you be bold when you have to keep your foot in the past, the present and the future?
I dislike the direction Microsoft is going with this "open dialog" scheme.
"We’ve talked in depth about building Windows 8, including the features, the designs, and the background behind these. We’ve done so in over 70 posts totaling over 500 pages if printed out and 34 videos totaling over 90 minutes"
It's like, if you asked people what they wanted in a car, they would have said a faster horse.
This is going to a huge kitchen-skin, designed-by-a-committee disaster.