Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities 499
jcatcw writes "After hundreds of hours of testing Vista, Scot Finnie is supremely tired of it. And of Microsoft. Although 80% of the changes in Windows Vista are positive, there is nothing about Vista that is truly innovative or compelling; there's no transformational, gotta-have-it feature in Vista. But the real problem isn't with Vista. It's with Microsoft itself. His opinion is that Microsoft has stopped focusing on end users. They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"
When was Microsoft ever user focused? (Score:5, Funny)
The coolest thing about Vista (Score:5, Funny)
let me be the first to say.... (Score:2, Funny)
DUH!
Testing (Score:5, Funny)
Although there's no must-have features, they'll bludgeon everyone with the DX10 stick and the "we won't patch XP any more stick after 2011" until everyone has bought it.
Re:The thing that really irks me is.. (Score:3, Funny)
And, other than viewing photos, the occasional mpeg, and multimedia things, I DON'T need video editing or sound editing capabilities, but am I going to have to buy the "Home Deluxe" or whatever the fuck it's called to view these multimedia files?!?
Sounds like you need Vista Pr0n Deluxe Edition
Re:Join the bandwagon (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nonsense (Score:3, Funny)
DRM-laden drivers? XP drivers would give you full quality even if you couldn't verify, to Microsoft's satisfaction, that you had paid for your content. Only communist homosexual evolution-believing terrorists would have any need to play content without Microsoft's explicit authorisation.
Re:Join the bandwagon (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, if you haven't completely atrophied you need to go for a walk or something!
Re:In other words (Score:5, Funny)
Spending six years and six billion dollars to achieve little more than a (debatable) improvement in security and a glossy but irritating GUI is wrong.
Imagine what a company that cared about its customers could do with those resources.
Re:The coolest thing about Vista (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Join the bandwagon (Score:5, Funny)
I always wanted to say, "wow, I was going to by that wooden laptop, but because of that ad, I think I'll buy the plastic version! Thank!
Re:In other words (Score:3, Funny)