Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to the Release Candidate

Master3, bettielblu is right, go back on the meds. On this, "No one is worried. We just have had it up to here with a small, obnoxious group of infantile users of their platform that have made it their mission to PO as many non-Apple using people as possible. And maybe now that you clowns are having some humble pie, maybe your maturity level will improve." Well, I guess Microsoft is worried enough to spend significant money directly addressing a competitor with a 3% marketshare! As many have pointed out, that is a serious mistake for the dominant player to make, so Apple has either goaded them into a stupid mistake or Microsoft is worried about the future. Despite a well-documented chair throwing temper, Ballmer is not stupid, and he has lots of good advisors. Therefore, I assume they have a reason to worry. If they've started this ad campaign from wounded pride and bruised egos, it is a serious mistake. I assume they have business reasons for it, and I assume that it is part of an effort to drive adoption of Windows 7, but I don't know, nor does anyone else here. I stand by the earlier comment, "Apple is somehow both a looming threat and a trivial irrelevance?" I think your vitriolic tone comes from the cognitive dissonance of knowing (or wondering) that Apple IS a threat while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge that. When Jobs came back to Apple he lectured the crowd at Macworld, more or less telling them to get over the notion that "For Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." He was right, and it cuts both ways now. A new Microsoft OS that succeeds will press Apple to innovate. Apple's innovations have clearly changed Microsoft. These are good things.