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Mule CEO: Vista is Lame
MS can get away with that (for a while longer, at least; vista is going to sharply reduce that power.) Very few other companies can. The really evil thing about vaporware, is that it's been known to scare funding away from products that had some real promise. Go PenPoint was a fine bit of work, but MS's "pen

ZDNet's Robin Harris Calls Windows Vista "Lame"
Maverick J...@mustangranch.org comp sys mac advocacy Walter Bushell wrote: In article <6uqdnS9RXv4_J-3YnZ2dnUVZ_sydn...@bresnan.com>, Maverick <J...@mustangranch.org> wrote: If any Hollywood producer ever recasts "The Adams Family", Ballmer is a shoein for Uncle Fester. A dead ringer? Didn't Uncle Fester have more

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Frank f...@spamm.nrz microsoft public windows vista general NoStop wrote: Frank wrote: vista user 43 wrote: I would say a more realistic number is 3-4% of the vista users are the ones that do not run into problems.. all the rest do Let me ask you a very serious question, capin' crunch...at what point in time in your

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
erikrock erikrock.31x...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista general ur an idiot -- erikrock.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
Snit S...@CABLEONE.NET.lNVALID comp sys mac advocacy "John Slade" <hhitman86@pacbell. net> stated in post eu3dh.24986$qO4.22...@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net on 12/4/06 5:57 PM: <gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1165015454.397478.186850@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com... John, Jump ship on the Evil

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
David da...@invalid.com microsoft public windows vista general ah, but his point is without merit, as HE is gonna consider the veracity of the source in a different light than I would, so who becomes the final arbiter of what constitutes a sufficiently "reliable" source?? Wasn't taking sides, just tried to

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com comp sys mac advocacy How is Job's fawing and the MacHeads gooing lame? Jealous? Most companies would love to have Apple's brand loyalty. Microsoft doesn't have it. But until now they haven't deserved it. We'll just have to see how good Vista turns out to be. tom_e...@earthlink.net

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
Tim Smith reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com comp os linux advocacy On 2007-04-20, ness...@wigner.berkeley.edu <ness...@wigner.berkeley.edu> wrote: As for the mac costing twice as much, this is obviously an exaggeration. I wonder what an honest price comparison is. I've heard people claim that there's no price

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Saucy f028...@b510.57a8.net microsoft public windows vista general "David" <da...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:qeGdncqI5Iqy5_TanZ2dnUVZ_qSonZ2d@comcast.com... I've read this before. Old news. Um, what do you care what the programming processes in place are in some software company? Saucy Simple.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
John C. Randolph jcr.nos...@nospam.mac.com comp sys mac advocacy On 2006-12-01 21:20:21 -0800, gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com said: We'll just have to see how good Vista turns out to be. We already know. It's XP with a couple of skins. -jcr.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
John Slade hhitma...@pacbell.net comp sys mac advocacy <gimme_this_gimme_that@yahoo. com> wrote in message news:1165015454.397478.186850@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com... John, Jump ship on the Evil Empire and join the Force. Become one of us. Toss that XP machine. Become one of us. Then you'll understand.

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Saucy f028...@b510.57a8.net microsoft public windows vista general "David" <da...@invalid.com> wrote in message news:85qdnSwrF8ydH_TanZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@comcast.com... If you believe Vista to be so bad, why do you continue to use it? dont be a dolt. I'm not gonna spend another $90 for XP and go thru the time consuming

ZDNet's Robin Harris Calls Windows Vista "Lame"
tom_e...@earthlink.net comp sys mac advocacy On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:24:28 +0100, Sandman <m...@sandman.net> wrote: http://metahost.origindigital. com/microsoft/20061130/bv_launch_20061130_100.as x Why isn't this hosted on microsofts servers? Apple is paranoid, Microsoft is not. Tom Elam.

ZDNet's Robin Harris Calls Windows Vista "Lame"
Mainly because the High Priests of Redmond Sales decided to force a lame version of NetMeeting to be baked into Vista call Windows Meeting Space. Actually, for small work groups, I think this works better than net meeting did. It looks kind of lame to me...well the interface is pretty, but the options and features

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
tom_e...@earthlink.net comp sys mac advocacy On 1 Dec 2006 13:48:31 -0800, gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com wrote: But Ballmer's keynote presentation is just way lame. Not as lame as Jobs fawning over a 2 gig bump in the iPod's hard drive capacity, and the Maccie audience going goo gaa in the background. Tom Elam.

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Your previous version of Windows has been restored." There is no indication of what the problem could be. I tried using the Microsoft support, but they require the product ID (which I get after installation) or $59. Kind of lame to not support customers with installation issues. Should I just return Vista and stick

Vista Ultimate doesn't install
Roy Schestowitz newsgro...@schestowitz.com comp os linux advocacy Why is Vista lame? ,----[ Quote ] I think competition is a Good Thing. Hiring smart guys like Ray Ozzie is a good idea, but Nostradamus himself can't save you with 5 year development cycles. We'll know they're serious when they fix that.

ZDNet's Robin Harris Calls Windows Vista "Lame"
DanS thisnthat@adelphianet microsoft public windows vista general Frank <f...@spamm.nrz> wrote in news:#WR6pM4QIHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl: DanS wrote: A few wannabe e-journalists and a few blogs...does not in any way add up to your "millions". You flunked math didn't you? So Frank, the marketing guru that you are,

Question: Vista
For example...if you say Vista sucks, as long as the article, quote, etc., agrees with you, it doesn't matter where it came from or who wrote it. ah, but his point is without merit, as HE is gonna consider the veracity of the source in a different light than I would, so who becomes the final arbiter of what

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Roy Schestowitz newsgro...@schestowitz.com comp os linux advocacy Windows Vista in the wilds of Shinjuku (verdict: lame) ,----[ Quote ] While I am sure that Microsoft will continue to hit their wall street numbers, I have to think that sooner or later this crap will catch up to them. Vista appears to be little more