I'm not missing any point. You need to recalibrate. You are too accustomed to fawning stories in fanzines and propaganda produced by MS itself. You get all hyped up when you read something that is even-handed and contains good analysis of what MS is up to. When the Times' Pogue or the Post's Pegoraro write reviews they certainly do write in this insightful way. You on the other hand come off like Carl Rove explaining the sunny side of water boarding.
>Makes no difference; you still miss the point. The point is not what Google, >Apple, Macy's, or MS do; it is the tone and the language the writer uses. An >unbiased reporter would never, EVER use a phrase like "Microsoft has to herd >users". Or say that Win7 has the release number 7000.0 to "impress >downloaders". Or that the entire purpose of the public beta is "to get early >adopter enthusiasts talking about the new product". An NYT or Post writer >saying this kind of stuff in a supposedly objective article would probably >get fired on the spot. Pogue writes... "For an operating system that took five years to create, Windows Vista¹s reputation went down in flames amazingly quickly. Not since Microsoft Bob has anything from the software giant drawn so much contempt and derision. Not every company lives to see the day when its customers beg, plead and sign petitions to bring back the previous version of its flagship product." Pegoraro writes... "In a week that I've been using Vista full-time on two laptops and one desktop, I've seen many things that I hated in XP: error messages that don't offer any advice on how to correct them, programs that inexplicably fail, annoying stalls and one "blue screen of death" crash. (At least I didn't have to stare at the same old stupid hourglass icon while the computer chewed its cud -- Vista bores you with a spinning blue circle instead.)" ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
