I like vista. Now your statement is incorrect :) On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dave l <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >Say what you will about MS but they did not get where they are today by > >being blind to competition. > > Where are they today jim? I wouldn't say that m$ is in a very good place > these days... > > Their OS is already being described as the biggest software trainwreck in > history, I know you love it jim but the majority of the population HATES it > with a passion I have never seen before but then again I'm sure you loved > windows ME as well. And they think windoz 7 will be a big hit? If they want > it to be a hit then they need to shut up about it being built on vista > because if they haven't quite figured it out, people HATE VISTA. I honestly > don't know even 1 person who has vista who likes it in anyway, shape or > form, so why would m$ continue to link them together? The only things ppl > seem to like about vista and windoz 7 is the "cool new features" what they > copy off of os x and it is kinda funny how m$ is trying to make windoz an os > x clone. I'm laughing at all the windoz ppl that make fun of os x features > and then windows "borrows" them and suddenly they are great, lol. I can > remember all the people squacking about how dumb the dock is and now windoz > 7 has the dock and how cool it is now, pleazzzzzz. And Jim I saw how you > were talking about the vista phot tool and how great it was. See now this is > m$'s problem, they put crap like that on there and ppl like you think it's > great so they keep doing it because they can get away with half-assing > everything. That photo editor wouldn't have even been current in xp, hell my > os x preview app has more power that that. And the red-eye tool, lol. Again > this is a perfect example of how m$ thinks and solves problems. Ok so you > got red eye and so m$'s solution is to draw a square around it to fix it. Ok > so they want to use a square to fix a circle... typical m$ thinking. It will > work most of the time but so they call it good and leave it. But it's not > always going to work, at least use a damn circle to fix a circle, real > rocket science their!! Now a current photo editor will fix red eye by > selecting red eye tool which turns to an color picker and then you just > click in the red of the eye which gives you about 99% more control and makes > it easier to use on small images and makes it easier to control what gets > changed, for example a keeping the red in the white of the eyes to show > bloodshot eyes. But the point is that it like most all their apps is > half-assed and not thought through properly. > > Their browser is still a joke & there are no excuses for it not be as good > as firefox anymore. If legacy is an issue then they need to learn to just > cut it off and not let people do it, they do that with things that make them > $$ like the os, so why not everything. Windoz ppl get mad at apple for not > letting old tech linger but by doing so relieves most all the issues and > things work way better. Meanwhile the new web browser stats show ie loosing > even more ground and at the current rate will no longer be the main browser > in 3 years. > > Their recent marketing campaign was even a bigger flop than vista and I > don't even see how that is possible but yet they did it. > > Their gaming machine I hear has cost some 7 billion plus and continues to > have issues & even though it looses money they keep it to keep Sony from > having the dominant console. > > Their "ipod killer" is on the verge being scrapped because no one wants it. > The biggest spending quarter of the year was last quarter and zune sales > were down 54% and they only made 21 million on it. It's been 3 years now > since zune was launched and still there are more ipods sold per quarter > than all the zunes combined for last 3 years. And then you have all the > windoz users complaining about itunes drm and how apple is so wrong to do > that. First off it isn't apple who wanted the drm, it was the record > companies. Second the record companies wanted it because fuckin m$ made such > a big deal of it to them about how they needed it. So next time you complain > about it thank m$ not apple. And then.... m$ makes mp3 player companies use > their "safePlayDisk" or whatever it was called and then m$ can't even get it > to work on their own zune, lol. The only possible bright spot here is that > MAYBE when zune tanks they will let you keep all the music if you are on the > subscription plan but then again maybe not and then how much $$ will you > have spent to get nothing? > > Their office app is ok but you don't hear much about it, this might be > their lone bright spot but is loosing to open source. > > Their search engine is a complete joke and so shocking bad that they have > to offer to pay people to use it, I mean come on now... pathetic. > > Their flash killer is being used on major sites for major events and then > suddenly is removed after as the site goes back to flash which basically > says that m$ is paying the sites to use it... Again pathetic > > Their spot an the fortunes most desirable company has been dropping like a > rock, meanwhile Apple leads pretty much every thing anymore. And yes I know > there are more pc users but even that is falling fast. If you figure that > Apple has 10% market share (up from 3% 2 years ago) and that 50% of the > windows shares are in enterprise which apple doesn't market to then simple > math says that outside the enterprise that macs are around 20% or 1 in 5, > which tells you that people have been giving up on m$ in huge numbers. > > M$ is not who they were, they have been sitting still thinking they will > rule the world forever and now they are getting passed by. They don't > innovate anything or bring anything new and worthwhile to the table, all > they do is lag behind everyone and keep progress from taking hold. > > Say what you want about me being a apple fan boy but geez, if you can't see > that Apple is rocking right now & m$ is in a nose dive then I feel for you. > > But on the bright side.... windoz 7 can only be an improvement but m$ needs > to do the right thing and upgrade users who were conned into vista for free, > since they are touting it as the fixed version of vista. 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