Time for a Vista Do-Over? 746
DigitalDame2 writes "'There's nothing wrong with Vista,' PC Mag editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tells a Microsoft rep at this year's CES. 'But you guys have a big problem on your hands. Perception is reality, and the perception is that Vista is a dud.' He goes on to confess that the operating system is too complex and burdened by things people don't need. Plus, Vista sometimes seems so slow. Ulanoff gives four suggestions for a complete Vista makeover, like starting with new code and creating a universal interface table. But will Microsoft really listen?"
Nothing wrong (Score:5, Funny)
New Code (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait...
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:5, Funny)
[deny] [allow]
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:5, Funny)
I was tryin' to say something nice about Vista! Honestly!
Re:PR won't fix this one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Let's be honest and give Microsoft credit where credit is due.
Re:Universal interface table? (Score:5, Funny)
give fishing rod to gnome
sleep
take fish from gnome
eat fish
Don't mind me, I'm also fighting the urge to use Multi User Dungeons. I was a fool to think that rehab was the end of it.
PC Mags publisher pleading to Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Large Advertsing client, I Lance do love your products, and i hate it when people say your product is rubbish. Apple wont spend as much, and that Penguin is mean.
Steve Please Please don't throw that a chair at me, but if you only made a few changes i could tell people that your products are the greatest yet and people who use Vista wont laugh at me like they are currently doing.
I think it is best that i call all users of Vista 'retarded' and my readership too since they do not see the amazing things i see in it. Thus I retain my journalistic integrity and you also win because i cannot never ever upset you.
Please send me a large cash sum, Love and kisses your bestest publisher friend in publishing.
Love Lance
Re:bah (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Nothing wrong (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:3, Funny)
That's what the walmart staff are for!
Re:New Code? (Score:5, Funny)
...I think it's quite reasonable to describe the Vista kernel (when loaded in memory) as a "giant black box that drives primates into a murderous rage."
(With apologies to Kubrick and Clarke)
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:3, Funny)
Note the cunning tactic employed here: paste in a Wikipedia link to a random Latin phrase, and instant +5! As they say, quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur; looks like it works on us.
That said, it seems that Vista is taking a real drubbing (here and elsewhere); even my workplace isn't moving to Vista, and we're internally a Microsoft shop. There's Exchange, 2k3 Server, the whole nine yards in the server closet, but the boss has reformatted his new laptop to XP because Vista was such a dog.
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:4, Funny)
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Of course at the end of the presentation when he started handing out Vista Ultimate discs, we all jumped on it. Now I just have to see if I still remember my eBay password.
Re:bah (Score:4, Funny)
When Se7en RC1 was released and immediately hit with a virus in an image library that had been directly ported from Vista I knew Se7en was doomed to be crap. The rewrite never actually happened they just ported the code and added yet another layer of crap on top.
Windows 8 will have a really awesome mini kernel, and then they will shove everything into the kernel so it runs as fast as possible.
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Take a look around my friend, you're already deep in enemy territory and you don't even know it.
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:5, Funny)
I'm intrigued. What is the missing word? This is the best Madlibs I've seen in a while.
monitor?
record?
upload?
fileshare?
Please toss us a bone and let us know exactly *what* you have that Eepc do to your family's logjams. Thanks in advance.
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Microsoft just named Windows 7 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing wrong (Score:3, Funny)
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New Edition? (Score:2, Funny)
Se7en is going to be really bad (Score:2, Funny)
I just hope it also comes with lust (a good collection of pr0n).
Re:bah (Score:2, Funny)