They have a sense of humor at Redmond

[nadinbrzezinski]

I had to reinstall Vista, don't ask

So as it is starting it says

A computer that is simple, easy and simple to use...

LOL they just described my Macbook

Vista, easy to use? They are shitting me... right?

[47of74]

1. Sure do

Even if they were to travel ahead in time a couple hundred years that'll still probably be true!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I know I had to LOL as I am now installing all them *^^*((T drivers

nothing like updating my OS on the mac, ten minutes and I was done

[Turbineguy]

3. I told them they

should limit wait times for telephone help to less time than it takes to install Linux.

They were not amused.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. OS X or Linux would be the same, ten minutes

Well in their defense the base OX just took half an hour... now doing drivers....

:-)

[Missy Vixen]

4. We're ten miles from Microsoft's world headquarters

Would you like me to drive by there tomorrow and stick my tongue out at them for you?

-MV
still running XP; they'll pry it from my cold dead fingers...

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I'll be taking that piece of crap and have it rolled back down to XP

next week. I've had it with windows... er Vista

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. I wish Apple would get the courage to just release OS X as a Windows competitor.

The Linux driver base is pretty impressive, if they could draw on that and just let you build PCs you install OS X on, what a better world it would be.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. I should nor say it, but has been hacked

that said, don't mention drivers... will sleep on the ^))R)__$%$ sound drivers....


Cannot get them in, rolling that piece of &(^%)) to XP... it is a gaming machine after all

[frog92969]

8. Yes, micro$hit is a joke

Linux does everything I need... except run Battlefield.
Thanks to Bill's monopoly I have to reboot for that (XPee).

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Well my lappie runs XP, only because it is an on the road machine

for writing and one app will NOT play well with wine or crossover...

So I just use that one for word processing on the road.

[frog92969]

11. Blame Bill

If it wasn't for his authoritarian business model, everything would run on Linux.

Open Office won't get it for you?
I use KOffice cause OO is more than I need.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. This is a tool used for and by writers

called Liquid story binder.

And that is not bill... and to be honest, I don't blame him. And as is, right now they are facing some interesting problems... and may just see the end of dominance. No, not because the individual users matter, that is actually a SMALL percentage of the market, but business and guv'ment are to the side because of vista. Those are the lion share of users... and if mac gets bright, they will get it... as well as insert linux here.

[blogslut]

24. Sadly, our armed forces are switching to Vista

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/us-army-to-adopt-vista-and-office-2007-by-end-of-2009.ars:

US Army to adopt Vista and Office 2007 by end of 2009

Even with Windows 7 and Office 2010 on the horizon, most companies have yet to make the change to the latest Microsoft software. The United States Army this week announced it will be moving all of its Windows-based computers to the Vista operating system and will also be ditching Office 2003 for Office 2007. These changes are to be completed by the end of the year, which is of course when Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be in their infancy.

Marcus D. Good, chief of the Army's Information Technology Systems Support Division, explained that this was not an overnight decision:

The Army has been testing Vista since its release and has run it through the Army Golden Master program. The Army Golden Master program is responsible for the release of the Army standard baseline configurations for commonly used computing environments within the Army Enterprise Infrastructure, the team responsible for making sure applications that ran on XP will run on Vista.

As it currently stands now, estimates are that half of the army's computers are currently using Office 2007 and 13 percent are powered by Vista. Both applications were released by Microsoft in the same timeframe, but for the Army, the switch to Office 2007 began before the switch to Vista. This is a typical occurrence in the industry because Office 2007 rarely requires upgrades to hardware, while Vista might be a different story when it comes a large network of computers (the Army has an estimated 744,000 desktops)...

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. On the one hand I do get it, they have been using MS products since oh

DOS.

But on the other, this is STOOPID...

Granted Word 07 is a good program... (for other reasons I fear I will stay away from it) but I'd deploy 7 if they absolutely need to. When they did play the Millennium game they had to upgrade faster than usual DOD rates and pace.

[notesdev]

12. Mac vs. UNIX vs. Vista, illustrated

(avert your eyes now if you get offended more easily than you get amused)

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Vista would be better illustrated by this

:banghead:

Got driver in, after a good night sleep.

[L0oniX]

23. FreeBSD ...mmmmm the flavor of Unix ....good stuff

[upi402]

15. I love Bill's dad and all, but...

yeah, MS is sketchy as hell

[TheMightyFavog]

16. Would it comfort you...

That in the setting of the Roleplaying game Shadowrun, that Microsoft was put out of business by a massive computer virus in the year 2029?

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. FASA was lousy at predicting history

whether in BattleTech or Shadowrun settings. (Yes I used to write for FASA at one time, another story altogether)... remember Boeing Interstellar and GM Interstellar are still around in 3050 or so... even slightly later. Don't know about dark age. Well if GM survives this year I will be surprised and if Boeing hands around for another decade... I will be surprised.

And they will do it well before 2029 all on their lonesome. If windows 7 is a dog too... that's it. The major users, aka business and guv'ment are looking for alternatives already. They are looking at Mac in a serious manner... as well as open source. Some guv'ments have moved that way already

Anyhow, 2012 should be fun. We all knew George Bush and Chenney were trolls, didn't we?

:-)

[TheMightyFavog]

19. One of the 4th ed books they have "articles" from the Post-Intelligencer's Matrix site.

I guess the bad predictions carried over to Fanpro/Catalyst era. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. There you go... and that is funny...

[Moondog]

21. Yes.

[MindPilot]

17. the Interface Obfuscation Committee

I'm convinced that Microsoft has a division whose sole function is to figure out new ways to make things as illogical and counter-intuitive as possible.

Vista is what happens when you outsource development.

[Greyhound]

22. And have a company run by a marketing moran that surrounds himself with marketing morans

that universally declare to each other that the geeks are irrelevant.

At least Bill had enough technical acumen to understand what was possible and what the results of some demands would be. He would step in and halt the worst idiocy.

The bright side is that Balmer will likely destroy the beast and thereby free computing.