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Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Well, when I installed it, I rebooted, selected vista from dual-boot screen, I have XP aswell And then it goes to Vista boot screen, it takes like 3 hours for the user-login screen to load!!! Then when I get to the user-login, It auto chooses my username - temur - then It sais '' loading your personal settings.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
... even XP doesn't encrypt stuff as it passes across the system board just in case I try to copy it) From what I've seen of Vista RTM, this is only true if you use WiMP. Don't play by their rules, man. Fight the power@#$!# ...Sorry. Bingo. WiMP plays my MP3s just fine (LAME encoded) and that is all that I require.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
I'm excited about the new version of Office and I'm looking forward to Vista. But Ballmer's keynote presentation is just way lame. See: http://metahost.origindigital.com/microsoft/20061130/bv_launch_20061130_100.as x "We want to be able to work with this stuff flexibly and fluidly with everyone around us.

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
David da...@invalid.com microsoft public windows vista general Then get off the newsgroup and join the company. that was the lamest retort I've seen lately on this NG.

vista 64 a driverless lame duck?
He is saying this because I deny to give solid proof that vista stinks... well... in my opinion the "proof" is all around us with millions of unhappy users SNIP> <DRIVEL DELETED> Millions of unhappy users is quite possible, and probable. MS says Vista sales are what now....probably around 100 million by now would

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com comp sys mac advocacy 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. Boy you people should get a life. Seems like Vista and Microsoft is your whole life. Every single day you're downing

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
Jon . microsoft public windows vista general Interesting to read this, even if it is a year old. I think it's just saying how complex writing and changing an OS - I don't think it's really malcontent. I don't think it's a reason to "knock" Vista, although I agree that the shutdown choices are confusing.

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Snit S...@CABLEONE.NET.lNVALID comp sys mac advocacy "Lefty Bigfoot" <nunya@busyness. info> stated in post 0001HW.C19BC63F0394C075F0407...@news.verizon.net on 12/5/06 11:58 PM: Snit wrote (in article <C19A15F5.697F5%S...@CABLEONE.NET.lNVALID>): "John Slade" <hhitma...@pacbell.net> stated in post

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
Lefty Bigfoot nu...@busyness.info comp sys mac advocacy Snit wrote (in article <C19C23E6.69DB0%S...@CABLEONE.NET.lNVALID>): "Lefty Bigfoot" <nunya@busyness. info> stated in post 0001HW.C19BC63F0394C075F0407...@news.verizon.net on 12/5/06 11:58 PM: Snit wrote (in article <C19A15F5.697F5%S...@CABLEONE.NET.

Windows Vista - worst OS yet?
Sandman m...@sandman.net comp sys mac advocacy In article <2006120205130111272-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>, John C. Randolph <jcr.nos...@nospam.mac.com> wrote: Some of the screen shots I have seen from DirectX10 games I would swear were photographs of real people, the detail (and shading/lighting) was that high.

ZDNet's Robin Harris Calls Windows Vista "Lame"
Suzanne MarcAurele smarc...@optonline.net(donotspam) microsoft public windows 64bit general Check the possibility that the update has spelling errors - I had an internet sign up program on a client machine that kept on popping up and upon scouring through the event log for it discovered (Task Scheduler by the way)

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
DFS nospam@dfs_.com comp os linux advocacy ness...@wigner.berkeley.edu wrote: On Apr 20, 8:33 pm, "DFS" <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote: Wait until he graduates and finds out what the world outside his dorm room uses on its computers. If I were graduating right now, I'd get a job with Google. I believe they run on Linux.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
Walter Bushell pr...@panix.com comp sys mac advocacy In article <2006120205130111272-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>, John C. Randolph <jcr.nos...@nospam.mac.com> wrote: Gosh, where have I heard that one before? "This time, for sure!" But Bulwinkle that trick _never_ works. -- Divided we stand!

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
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 than a GUI upgrade to the Mac of 2 years ago.

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
vista user 43 f...@groufa.com microsoft public windows vista general 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 "forty-nine" <4...@linux.pu> wrote in message news:fkcj5d$tgb$1@aioe.org... "DanS" <thisnthat@adelphianet> wrote in message

vista 64 a driverless lame duck?
Frank f...@spamm.nrz microsoft public windows vista general 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 delusional mind did you

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
XS11E xs...@NOSPAMyahoo.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Theo <t...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Caution! Decorating the drive for x64 only works if there are no 16-bit or 32-bit .dll's associated with the installation. It won't work for dozens of devices but it's certainly worth a try before

Mule CEO: Vista is Lame
Steve de Mena ste...@stevedemena.com comp sys mac advocacy Sandman wrote: In article <YKwch.62454$si3.26...@tornado.socal.rr.com>, Steve de Mena <ste...@stevedemena.com> wrote: Apple was one of Akamais first customers and I think it's pretty safe to say that Akamai became so big in the content delivery scene partly

Ballmer's Vista Keynote. On the lame side
gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com comp sys mac advocacy Apple is in the streaming video business. Microsoft is not. Apple is paranoid, Microsoft is not. Tom Elam.

No wonder Vista was late AND lame...
How about real world features like a massive change to the security architecture in Vista? Gosh, where have I heard that one before? "This time, for sure!" You may recall that NT was sold on the premise that it would be securable. Some of the screen shots I have seen from DirectX10 games I would swear were