You know that "Wow" ad for Vista, where you see them watch Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 launch on B&W TV and go "wow"? NASA Watch points out that Shepard launched on the Navy's Redstone, not the Air Force's Atlas. Wow. They are that careless. Well I know it's the advertising agency, and by definition they really are that stupid, but Microsoft might like to have checked.
As NASA Watch says, one more reason to use a Mac...
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