Related topics

Microsoft's Touchy-Feely TableIs surface computing the next big thing?
Steve Ballmer is reported to have said that you'll pay about the same for Vista as XP if you want to do the same things. Now that's clever. Ballmer knows very well that people who upgrade Vista will want to do a whole lot more. Taking an intuitive stab in the dark, US$300 to US$400 comes to mind.

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
Forwarded message Windows Vista Beta 2 now freely available but be warned By Stan Beer IT Wire June 8, 2006 Microsoft has opened up its new work in Ballmer knows very well that people who upgrade Vista will want to do a whole lot more. Taking an intuitive stab in the dark, US$300 to US$400 comes to mind.

If Vista is so bad then how come Microsoft made 81% more money ...
Symptoms have been shown to lessen if a glossy 8x10 or larger photo of Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer is shown to suffer. In lieu of same an unopened package of Vista can be offered or the DVD itself, allowing the victim to cling to it for comfort until paramedics arrive. Do not give anything by mouth, keep patient

CADand Vista
That's a Hell of a lot of dissatisfied MS customers, building up over the course of that time. And where are those dissatisfied customers going to turn to resolve this issue? Frankly I don't believe there will ever even be a version 7, at all. Neither do the analysts. As Microsoft looks ahead, will Vista be the end

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 13-10-07
However, I found that linux could do most of the the work that I want to do on my computer faster, more efficiently, and with greater security than Windows XP. If it's so great why do you run XP in a vmware window? A week before his comments, CEO Steve Ballmer had said that Vista would only create a "small

Steve Ballmer is a Cold Man: Microsoft says Linux code belongs ...
Do you realize how much you sound like Steve Ballmer? http://www.theregister.co. uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ It was intentional, They obviously put in a lot of hard work and it looks very professional. As to this "Professional Software" kick Frank seems to be on does the really think that only

WINDOWS VISTA BETA 2 NOW FREELY AVAILABLE BUT BE WARNED
Pretty much everything numbs Ballmer's mind. Where does a twerp like you get off making fun of Ballmer? Oh, come *on*, Edwin. Do the math, for once in There's millions of 14 year olds, and under, who will "bump the numbers around" a LOT. Here's another hair... Why do you keep finding hair between your teeth?

Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity
How's the technology work? Hidden inside Surface's base is a computer—this is a Microsoft table, so it's running Windows Vista—that uses a DLP projector to shine its At the D conference, I ran into one surface-computing believer whose opinion counts for quite a lot. "It'll be built into every desk eventually,

Vista delayed?
If, as seems to be the case, the NHS was looking for a single client environment that could work with all of its existing systems and duplicate all of the functionality of Microsoft Office, then Sun JDS could only win the contract if it could do all, not just 'most' or 'enough' of what a full-spec,

Buying a used desktop PC?
I pick Apple as my OS that I do most of my work on, because I find my time is more productive. That is the sort of user decision that Microsoft can't overcome Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer stand up in front of cameras and embarass themselves giving pathetically weak excuses (& they've done a lot of that lately).

Vista may be in big trouble.
Daniel Jameson dan...@cyberdude.com microsoft public windows vista general I wonder. What is the ratio of people who realize that the copy they are buying are fairly cognizant of their complicity, there are probably a lot of users buying assembled systems that are going to be pissed when it doesn't fully work.

What's up with Vista?
You can do more work in less time. You can't balance your checkbook or do your taxes any faster. You can't even chat or watch videos any faster. In fact, if you don't get a Vista-Only video card, you can't even get the really nifty graphics for DirectX-10 video games. Linux users are using UltraCompact Notebooks

Windows Vista at One Year (Dark Side Report)
Again a repair install has the most likely chance to succeed in XP, (and can work in Vista) but you need to have a Vista DVD. First, in order to do a Repair Install You must boot to the bios setup and position booting from the "CD" first in the boot order--it probably will not say DVD but might.

Big Brother is watching... and nagging
Just a quick glance at Microsoft perception of "Office of the Future" leaves you uninspired (or worried, if you work at that company). Linux is many years ahead. And I've had a lot of people ask me about linux in the year prior. Every single one of them in the last month has mentioned one common concern: Vista.

Vista Will Exterminate Desktop Linux Once And For All.
JJ gave avoidance, as do many others in this group. -Michael TY Michael. Peter I am suggesting that instead of stating over and over that the answers are somewhere on I have used XP a bit here and quite a lot at work but it was APRIL when I last fired up Vista. For most things day to day I don't bother with any

Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds...
How do I know, because it told me I had no firewall. `---- http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/ps2-mouse-turns-off-firewall/ Microsoft Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand new products won't work with Vista.

[Rival] Microsoft Still Abuses Monopoly Power, Ballmer ...
Evidently like the Gasbag .. You don't lose your work as often and frankly, you can make your linux interface look and work *exactly* like XP AND Vista if the urge should take you. Nope .. I honestly have come to believe that Steve Balmer is a deep-pocketed nit-wit that is about to run what was a really, really,

Movie settings in Vista
That'll culminate late next year in the long-awaited update of Windows, called Vista. Analysts such as Drew Brosseau of SG Cowen & Co. expect it to help .... But instead of liberating employees to do great work, Ballmer's moves have been stifling, some workers say. With so much effort placed on cross-group

Even top officials struggled to make vista work!!!
Among other things, her upgraded computer bogged down, and the gadgets wouldn't work. "It ended up being so many things that wouldn't work, that you get to the point where you just say, this thing has failed," Genovese said last week. On stage last year, Ballmer acknowledged initial challenges with Vista's device

Vista Piracy Has Begun
I heard talk that the Ultimate could do 8 processors but I can't find anything to back that up. I am at work right now and I don't have access to my Vista I'm sure he is, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of Vista. No...but it has a lot to do with all the bitching that takes place in the