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Microsoft admits Vista failure
Volesoft ^ | April 21th | Charlie Demerjian

Posted on 04/21/2007 7:13:38 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows MeII, is a joke that no one wants. It did two unprecedented things this week that frankly stunned us.

Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. The second that Vista came out, Microsoft makes it very hard for you to sell anything other than MeII. It can't do this on the business side because it would be laughed out the door, but for the walking sheep class, well, you take what you are shovelled.

(Excerpt) Read more at volesoft.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: vista; vistafailure; windows; windowsmillennium
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

This is a stupid article. The Inquirer thinks that MS is selling Vista for $3, when in reality it is a crippled XP. Getting that basic fact wrong, to me, invalidates their whole premise.


21 posted on 04/21/2007 8:17:45 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Just installed new HDDs in mine and the wife’s PCs. I put XP on both. I’ve got MS certs out the wazoo and I’m not putting Vista on any of my stuff.


22 posted on 04/21/2007 8:25:33 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: ken21
you hafta wonda how the world’s richest man got rich from this pos?

Businessmen are savvy but stupid.

I came over to the business world from scientific computing (UNIX) and was in literal "shock and awe" for about two years that anyone would ever put up with anything as kludge-ridden and dysfunctional as windows; let alone be impressed by it.

I had always taken it as a *given* that the OS would be stable and that applications would work as promised.

No such luck.

Cheers!

23 posted on 04/21/2007 8:32:35 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

it happened after bill took windows off of the dos platform.


24 posted on 04/21/2007 8:35:33 AM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: ShadowAce

Yeh, I read that it was $3 XP as well which is strange cause I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.


25 posted on 04/21/2007 8:37:25 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: djf
Since you either can’t or won’t reply like a normal human, forget about it.

I spend enough time decoding things.

LOL

26 posted on 04/21/2007 8:37:49 AM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: mowowie
...I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.

My opinion is that this program is just a product dump--they want to truthfaully say that they have no more copies of XP to sell to the US, so we must buy Vista instead. It's just another ploy to push everyone onto the latest, and continue the revenue stream.

Nothing more.

27 posted on 04/21/2007 8:42:18 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: grey_whiskers
Businessmen are savvy but stupid.

As the owner of two highly successful businesses I strongly disagree with your statement. From our original DOS based PC's to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.

28 posted on 04/21/2007 8:53:24 AM PDT by politicalwit (Family values don't stop at the border...but Federal laws do.)
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To: politicalwit
As the owner of two highly successful businesses I strongly disagree with your statement. From our original DOS based PC's to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.

More power to you, then :-)

29 posted on 04/21/2007 9:08:14 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ShadowAce

the inquirer is rarely 100% , possibly even 80% or 70 or 60 correct and lately all they have become is a anti-MS clearing house.


30 posted on 04/21/2007 10:46:45 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: mowowie

Soon is 2009, which considering that XP has been around since 2002 is a pretty long time for them.


31 posted on 04/21/2007 10:47:58 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: Boundless

Could be, but likely isn’t. XP and Vista have different kernels and different ways of installing software and drivers. Considering that support for his product has been discontinued by the company it’s unlikely that it will ever work, unless some home programmer figures out a way to get it to install.


32 posted on 04/21/2007 10:54:02 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: politicalwit

“From our original DOS based PC’s to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.”

Congratulations! If that is true (no offense to you but I highly doubt it) you are certainly the only person in the world who has experienced that.

I have worked as a Microsoft professional for 10 years supporting their products in government and fortune 500 companies. I simply do not believe your statement. 19 years and no crashes? That’s like walking through a rainstorm and not getting wet. Again, you may be honest. If you are honest, you are definitely a record-holder....but I don’t think so.


33 posted on 04/21/2007 11:09:13 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: mowowie

> ... I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.

What you read was that MS is going to stop selling
the OEM versions of XP by the end of 2007. This move is
intended to force PC makers onto Vista. It also affects
PC home-builders.

The support life of XP will be many years, although MS
could sabotage that in any number of ways.

I haven’t seen anything on retail XP availability
(upgrades and full-install versions).


34 posted on 04/21/2007 11:18:30 AM PDT by Boundless ("Balanced" is still half lies.)
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To: L98Fiero

I personally don’t care what you may think or believe but the fact remains...NEVER A CRASH...NEVER.


35 posted on 04/21/2007 11:23:27 AM PDT by politicalwit (Family values don't stop at the border...but Federal laws do.)
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To: ShadowAce

PING!


36 posted on 04/21/2007 12:34:31 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: ken21

“you hafta wonda how the world’s richest man

got rich from this pos?”

Extremely intelligent marketing.


37 posted on 04/21/2007 12:36:42 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Won't vote for a liberal in the democrat party, won't vote for one in the Republican party. Ever)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I’ll be buying it. Mac are garbage for people who like the confines of communism... communism isn’t cool. If you hate MS at least use Linux. Don’t lock yourself down to a Mac because it is “cute”
38 posted on 04/21/2007 12:44:06 PM PDT by Porterville (All hail the Prophet Gore, an ass dressed in a lion's skin)
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To: grey_whiskers
>I came over to the business world from scientific computing (UNIX) and was in literal "shock and awe" for about two years that anyone would ever put up with anything as kludge-ridden and dysfunctional as windows

Academics have
very smart grad students to
do computer work,

as well as tech geeks
on call. Microsoft has to
provide software that

"empowers" people
doing everything themselves.
And many people

are extremely dumb.
And many people have needs
that are quite outside

(some mundane some weird)
what academics require.
Windows fits that world.

39 posted on 04/21/2007 2:41:57 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Porterville

I won’t. I’ll lock myself down to a Mac because they are superlative. Thanks


40 posted on 04/21/2007 4:52:03 PM PDT by Shimmer128
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