Sorry for the exclamation point in the headline, but my inner media critic, who is taking over for the second half of this post, insisted on it. It�s there for a reason, which I�ll get to shortly, I promise. [Update: My inner media critic is laughing out loud at the people who completely missed this reference and posted TalkBack comments complaining about the headline. �See,� he says, �you should have used FOUR exclamation points. Then maybe they would have figured out the headline was deliberately sensational, to make a point about how important headlines and opening pages are to media coverage.�] Our technical press, like the mainstream media, sometimes has a hard time letting go of an idea it�s been pushing. That�s true even when new facts show that the old story wasn�t, strictly speaking, accurate. Or when facts on the ground have changed and maybe it�s time to alert your readers to the new realities. Today�s case in point: I just got through reading ExtremeTech�s recent lab-based head-to-head comparison of gaming performance in Windows Vista SP1 and XP SP3. The conclusion was quite a surprise.