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Microsoft Watch - Vista - Microsoft’s Miscalculation
Vista’s visual improvements make the calculator oversight all the more glaring. My complaint is simple: The / for divide and * for multiply. Why can’t these symbols be what they’re supposed to represent? Apple gets this right. Mac OS X calculator uses x for multiply and ÷ for divide.

Little things do matter. I suppose Microsoft could argue that people should just do all that complex math in their heads anyway. Yeah, it sure is fun to calculate in my head $199.95 for a hotel room plus local taxes plus $14.95 Internet access times five days multiplied (Or is that divided?) by the percentage interest on the credit card applied to X number of days of the billing cycle.

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