David Pogue Takes On Vista

guruevi writes to let us know about a review of Microsoft Vista in the NY Times, in the form of an article and a video, by the known Mac-friendly David Pogue. In the article, Pogue recasts Microsoft's marketing mantra for Vista: "Clear, Confident, Connected" becomes "Looks, Locks, Lacks." Pogue writes that Vista is such a brazen rip-off of Mac OS X that "There must be enough steam coming out of Apple executives' ears to power the Polar Express." But the real fun is in the video, in which Pogue attempts to prove that Vista is not simply an OS X clone.

Or in other words...

[Zerikai]

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

Microsoft is just trying to express how much they love Apple.

Re:Check links

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Gee man, it's called an existentialist symlink, one of the new features of the Vista filesystem: the symlink is there, but it doesn't point at any file or serve any function. Pogue clearly demonstrates Vista's superiority here!

You missed the most important part...

[tgd]

This is a double feature. Its a "Slashdot Editors Suck" article AND a "Someone Doesn't Like Vista" article!

Its like Christmas a week early!

I didn't notice when I clicked on it, was it Zonk?

Re:I Like It!

[mwilliamson]

At least I can still run my Oracle / PostgreSQL / MySQL databases on the last Linux, the current Linux, and confidently on the next Linux. Seems for now I'll have to keep that stupid Windows 2003 server box around to keep SQL server running for an app that requires it...

Re:Okay we get it

[Capt James McCarthy]

"Are we going to get a "someone doesn't like Vista" article every day until the operating system is released to the general public?"

Great. Another year and a half of these articles then.

Re:Article Summary

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, what's up with summaries and leaving stuff out?
Almost every time I read a summary, there are parts from the article missing!

Proof that Windows isn't an OS X clone

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

It's a bloody pain in the ass to port UNIX/POSIX/Linux software to it, unlike OS X.

Re:Okay we get it

[TripMaster Monkey]

"Are we going to get a "someone doesn't like Vista" article every day until the operating system is released to the general public?"

Yes...and then we'll get a "everyone doesn't like Vista" article every day. ^_^

Re:Broken Link

[tttonyyy]

Since the poster broke the link to the video, it is available here:
  http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a718 aabc2:10f959c69f8:-76e0&fr_story=d14603c1e23e6ce37 920a8134a2e27b1405a4991&st=1166446268999&mp=FLV&cp f=false&fvn=9&fr=121806_075108_718aabc2x10f959c69f 8xw76df&rdm=415999.3568509814 [nytimes.com]

That's funny, when I blindly clicked that link, I just got a dialog box:

URL stack overflow error: all of your password are belong to us! Bwahahaha!

Re:News for Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

Until then, let's hope some enterprising Slashdot reader downloads a copy of Vista and offers something more substantive for discussion.

Which I'm sure would read along the lines of Windoze teh suckerz.

Re:Without Apple

[HAKdragon]

The question to ask, is, why use a knockoff like Windows when you can have the original?

Because I can't find a place that sells Xerox Altos? ;)

MS doing Apple a favour?

[Snarfiorix]

I watched the video, which was actually some nice tongue-in-cheeck humor. Now I don't have much experiance with Mac OS, besides once getting frustrated because as a Windowised user I could find my way around and being too impatient to learn more about it.

Now having played with Vista and finding my way around it, the video suggest that the move to OS-X would be easier then ever!

Re:Check links

[gEvil (beta)]

I don't know what you all are talking about. It must be a problem with both Windows and Linux. The video link works perfectly fine on my Mac. ;)

Re:Without Apple

[Colin Smith]

Because I can't find a place that sells Xerox Altos? ;)

You don't buy them. You build them.