Maverick, is it possible that the author of that Microsoft piece deliberately dumbed it down to fit the culture he was spamming. My guess is that most of the people who received that email would not see anything wrong with it. Microsoft has many faults, we all agree, but Microsoft is known, even by its bitterest enemies, as a very savvy marketer. If they think it will sell XP, they'll even start talking
"Bushonics". What do you call the use of dumbed-down dialect to pump a product? Litteracy?