I just wanted to thank you personally for this post. It is another of the long list of the "stay away from Vista" articles that have put me off Vista for at least another year.
I've never understood why MS just didn't "improve" on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving what already works, instead of reinventing all over again. On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:00:11 GMT Joe User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got this down the Apple pipeline, worth a read. Debate encouraged! > I am still debating selling Vista. Don't ask me about the date (3.12?) > > > Dim Vista > Stephen Manes 03.12.07 > > > Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million > lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over > the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow' Starts Now," and Microsoft > touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as > with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. > Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to > Redmond, Washington and rip somebody's liver out. > > Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of patched-up old > ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult supervision running things. > If I can find plenty of problems in a matter of hours, why can't Microsoft ? > Most likely answer: It did--and it doesn't care. <snip> -- C L Shaw <>< <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Today is a moment for you to clip yet another strand from the rope of earth, so that when he returns you won't be tied up.
