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Vista seek peak
Ballmer rewound his tape and summarized as follows: "Two things, I'll make it real simple: Number one, [Novell and Microsoft] are going to work together technically I have to admit, there were times, especially when we started, where we wondered, how will we do this? And yet through an awful lot of great work,

Vista Tips & Tricks !
It doesn't take a lot of them to blow your 10 million figure. If you're going to count things that way, then your one billion dollar figure for Windows will get blown out Do you suppose that is a result of the inherent superiority of the OSS development model, in which developers tend to work on what they love,

Even top officials struggled to make vista work!!!
Which means that a lot of home desktops will continue to run Windows since a lot of people buy home computers that are compatible with their 'work' computers. I don't like Vista and will put off wasting space on my hard disk for it until enough of my customers buy it and install it on their systems.

Steve Ballmer Parties like It's 1995
Plagued by a series of delays, Windows Vista is key to a new product cycle at the world's largest software maker that includes a new version of its Office business software suite. Ballmer said people would be impressed by the new software and also by Microsoft's new portable media player, the Zune. "Lot of people

Windows DVD maker doesn't work!!
The open letter to Steve Ballmer wasn't actually to Steve, it was in effect a public declaration of deceipt by the Nigerian government. Mandriva poured a lot of resources into the project, helped with the hardware development, and did a lot of the foundation work for and with Intel. Now all of the sudden,

Linux Opens up While Conquering the Phone Market "So WHERE THE ...
Ballmer: It's like, totally un-American. Hu: Does that mean it doesn't work? Gates: No, it works fine. Better than that goddam pre-release version of Vista, in fact. Hu: So why do you dislike it so much, Mr Bill? Gates: Well, those damn hippies just give it away. Ballmer: It's basically, well, communistic.

Microsoft Linux!
3 years and IIS has only had a handful of vulnerabilities, while Apache has had tons. How do you reconcile that? This ignores a lot of things. The story said something of how Microsoft had concluded - I think it was Steve Ballmer talking - that Vista needed a total rewrite because the code had simply gotten to

The WTF Starts Now
Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said Vista was so good a service pack would not be needed. Service Pack 1 went into "critical" development even before Vista's public A recent patent filing reveals they have a whole lot more pain and expense planned for you in the future (V13). What should Microsoft do?

Thoughts on Vista
The usually boisterous Ballmer became unexpectedly quiet and soon exited the room without saying goodbye. Still, he had a lot to say to SmartMoney senior http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029161 INSECURITY WARNING -- Windows Vista and W2K3 Server Do Not Support

Who's springing for Vista?
No salary comes with the MVP award, but we do receive a few perks that help us to help other users. We get to attend an MVP Global Summit at MS headquarters most years, where Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and other execs thank us for our help. While there, we get to visit with some MS techies, but the focus is mostly

I apologize; I like Vista
's top officials struggled to make Windows Vista work smoothly when it was released, according to internal e-mails released Wednesday. She added later, "Please give this some consideration; it would be a lot less costly to do the right thing for the customer than to spend dollars on the back end trying to fix

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 22-10-07
You did a nice job confirming why most normal people think a lot of IT guys are uncouth, unnecessarily rude, frequently self-important, If you cant make Vista work. Dont blame Vista. Blame yourself for not being smarter then a 5 year old. And to anyone that needds to make a reference to how anyone was raised.

Free Advice To Gates, Ballmer On Vista
THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try harder!" 2005: (...) "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Right, you lot, make it look like this!" 2006: Windows Vista THE MANAGEMENT: "Look, if we trickle it out to those mugs, I mean, valued customers who've already paid,

Ballmer Suddenly Pretends Linux Not a Threat
A Vista flop could give it some wind. The Linux fans wouldn't know what to do with a wind. I read the evangelical buzz and think the same thing. My impression (and experience, albeit limited) is that it is technically solid and merely lacks the focused capital investment necessary to make it work for Joe

NEW THREAD: CRITICAL VIRUS ERROR
And there are a lot more users overseas than in the US If Engineering-Scientific Users start picking up the Mac more as more applications come to the I would like to continue with SolidWorks and will do so, but I am not going to promise beyond 2009. SWks may just be a legacy software for reference work by then.

Even George Ou Won't Embrace Bug-riddled Vista
Developers' feedback, although not a big surprise, turned out to be more than reserved concerning the overall quality of Vista, inducing the-again-not-so-unexpected idea that there is still a lot of work to do in this domain. Moreover, rumors concerning a yet another delay of Vista, previously announced for public

[Rival] Windopz "7" -- Not This Decade (Vista Or Nothing ...
Only evil and hateful men do such things. Of course, but it still doesn't excuse them from not taking security into account. Even at Berkely computer labs in the late 70s and early 80s you had mischeivous students twiddling with the code. -Rick I doubt very seriously that Microsoft came up with the name "VISTA" for

Who's springing for Vista?
I've been using it since the start and it seems to work very well with Vista (1.5 Beta). If you have feedback, there is a WOC Live blog to directly email them and there is are also a number of public groups that they DO monitor closely. You should give them a lot of feedback because it is still in Beta and you have

Windows XP makes Vista a laughing stock
At work we develop embedded/rugged applications for both Windows and Linux (and some other OSes, too), and Linux undoubtly has a lot of advantages in several Vista was thrown together in under 9 months because Ballmer needed to get /something/ into the marketplace. It's just XP with added useless eyecandy and

Vista and what do you think of it? VISTA SUX
It never affects me and it never affects a lot of the people who help on this group, but it sure impacts thousands and thsouands of people I consider their It's not going to do any more or work any better in Vista. You really have a strange idea of acceptable. I guess your definition means their won't be