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Vista Bombs - Microsoft Announces NEW VAPORWARE!! - Vienna
The list could go on and on and on and on…. but I’ll stop there. Certainly Google hasn’t dominated every market it has taken on, but to say that Google runs second to Microsoft online in everything but search says a lot more about Steve Ballmer than it being a true reflection on today’s online marketplace.

[Rival] Sweaty Ballmer Told Off by Author Whom He Cited
... not seen as "work" (strict influence from Billy & Balmer noticable:). http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html shows a lot (but hotmail.co.uk> wrote: How do I change my settings in Vista, so when I play Divx movies from the web, my pc doesn't go to sleep while watching?

Movie settings in Vista
Jesper On 1/29/07, Lee Hauser <l...@ohnosecond.com> wrote: It's all about how I can do my work and (digital) play, and access my data. I want to stay away from Vista because it threatens to make it harder to access my data and use the computer the way I want to. As long as an OS properly runs on my hardware,

Windows Vista vs. Linux: Why Vista Might Lose the Battle
'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

Microsoft Assesses Linux, Google
Jim Allchin's story with Steve Ballmer clearly proves this. * Users are forced to choose between paying more for backup and recovery service or forfeit all their data. * Corporations waste a lot of time restoring systems images when data is mixed in with the system partition. * Techniques like roaming profiles are

VISTA feels like going back to the Stone Age (in nice colors ...
kirk jim 1...@11.11 microsoft public windows vista general Err... I don't think that that guy Ballmer jumping up and down shouting like a prehistoric gigantopithicus (giant monkey) for This has nothing to do with Vista. It's true with any OS. For normal use any graphics card that supports Aero will work fine.

PCWorld Poll: 61% Have Vista Problems
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 That's a guarantee for failure, particularly since they already needed two years or so to work at it. Given that your assumptions are invalid,

No marketing campaign, no sales.
http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/21/bill-gates-like-to-lie-about-vista/ Gates deposition videos ,----[ Quote ] Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were bundling non-Microsoft browsers? Gates: I'm not sure. Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were concerned about in January of

[Rival] Arrogant Microsoft Thinks It Invented the PC
So what you are saying is that HW companies couldn't shift new HW since Vista runs just fine on the older HW. It sure sounds like it. Actually, it's more along the lines; "Wow, where do Microsoft get off foisting this POS on us. There is no way I will be buying any new computers while I'm forced to use it.

Vista exceeds Apple's installed base in first five weeks of ...
Lets make a start then shall we, we have a lot of work to do, but we'll just have a nice cup of tea and jam doughnut first. A modern-day Gerstner is needed Vista will be ditched and those who have paid for it will be given XP pro and any compensation necessary by way of a appology. But in the background we will

Tactless Ballmer Laughs at iPhone
Ballmer, 50, has been deeply involved in the discussions with the European competition authorities. Windows Vista and Office 2007, according to industry The Department of Justice is not going to do that, and the European Union is not going to do that. At the end of the day, we can get a lot of guidance.

Microsoft: Windows Vista end of an era (The Washington Times)
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 ..... Ed Bott wasn't sure at 9:30AM this morning I think reflects a lot about MSFT's lack of ability to communicate clearly as to what an Upgrade Vista DVD can do,

Thoughts on Vista
We do not know whether Ballmer met with anyone, whether it was closed-door or at a cafe, whether the meeting involved a "small number" of people or was the result 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.

Is the O/S (and Native Applications) Front Being Abandoned?
Instead, Microsoft decided to roll out those components over time after the launch of Vista, Ballmer said. This also gives the company's developers time to run code Make the work environment 'cool' and nobody will care that the software is crap. Too late, a lot of us *know* it, was crap, is crap, will be crap.

If Vista is so bad then how come Microsoft made 81% more money ...
Do you have something to support this assessment that the IE team (that which was (re-)assembled after 5 years of ignoring Web woes) squeezed talent and expertise out of Windows? If so, this may explain the "development crash" of Vista, as Ballmer recently referred to it. Surely switching staff around like that

What's up with Vista?
Sooner or later, the quality of Linux's hardware support would reveal itself to the masses, and Vista is probably the first time when significant numbers of people are doing an upgrade themselves. Probably a lot of them have heard about all these linux people who install their own operating systems, or use liveCDs,

Faultline/The Register Says Steve Ballmer Failed, and ...
The value is in what people /do/ with the tools they're given, and either the tools /work/ or they /don't/. Recent history has shown us that Windows Software and drivers are incompatible with Vista. Hardware costs are disproportionately high in relation to the functionality of Vista (a lot of hardware for very

Linux users CRYING cause they don't have STEAM! PATHETIC!!!!
I know this because I program against it at work everyday. Windows XP only does this if you install Windows Genuine Advantage (the bullshit marketing I think Vista is finally going to be Microsoft's "Waterloo." I won't get into all the details here but it has A LOT of problems that M$ is not admitting to.

Vista opened the door to opportunity for massive switch to Linux
jim - alt comp freeware yeah.. there is a lot of disatisfaction vista, and it could have been 1000 times better. however after some intense testing using vista as Group wrote an internal memo saying that Microsoft had lost touch with customer needs and if he didn't work there he'd buy an Apple Macintosh (V12).

Thoughts on Vista
Ahh, you don't know the difference between CPM and CPM86, do you? You should do some research before you post. Then, look up the Amstrad PCW16, a very popular machine indeed, which had a major impact on the computing industry, look up its OS, and see if you can work out, on your own, the linkage between its OS,