Posted on 03/26/2006 4:49:30 AM PST by twntaipan
Trying to decipher what goes on at Microsoft brings back memories of the old Soviet Union, where people picked through the Pravda articles trying to figure out who was in and who was out. Microsoft fits perfectly with the Soviet-style politics of Washington state.
Microsoft can't even finalize and ship a product that does little more than put their OS on par with OS X and Linux.
This is pathetic.
I think the MS employees have done their job and the company heads are screwing them by delaying the release of Vista.
Coming Soon: Windows Vaporware 2007 - Beta Version*
*MS doesn't have bugs. Everything is beta. Not compatible with prior Windows OS.
And then the Japanese cars showed up. Better quality, better gas mileage, lower cost. And Detroit's answer was the Pinto and the Vega?
Microsoft Vega. You think you hate it now, but just wait until you own it!
As I sit here purring away with Tiger I can only laugh.
Everything I've seen of Vista is playing catch up with the last two interations of the Apple OS.
Apple has taken huge steps, first by going to a Unix based OS then by taking on Intel. They've bitten some painful bullets to update themselves from a competitive standpoint and to make themselves a superior product.
I don't ever expect Apple to be the dominant OS or even gain more than 10-15% market share. However they have set numerous benchmarks that have left MS in the dust.
It's incredibly hard though to steer a megacorporation like MS. If you're replacing the OS for 90% of the world's computers with a decade or more of legacy software you have to have as robust a successor as possible.
My biggest complaint, as a Mac user, about MS is that Office 2004 really kind of screwed us with only having Word, Excel, Power Point and Entourage (Outlook for you Windows users.). We're missing Visio, Front Page, Project, Publisher and some other components.
I still won't go Windows.
The best comment I read was this:
Quit crying and just get linux!
Fedora Core released version 5 on March 20. It was developed at a cost of...zero. To get it to install on your computer costs...zero.
It just works. It does not, however, do many XP standards, such as BSOD, virus and spyware.
How much of Windows Vista Bleak Landscape was developed offshore?
The "Cheap Crap" theory.
They did. It was called Windows NT. We all see how that worked out.
They they promised that Longhorn would be a complete rewrite. That didn't work out so well, and now Microsoft seems to be ready to rewrite 60% of the Longhorn (Vista) code anyway, due to major problems. And they're pulling in programmers from the XBox division and stating that it will be done in 9 months.
Vista is going to be a "Friday" car.
There are a lot of different substitutes for FrontPage. Since I write my HTML by hand, I don't know much about them.
What really hurts us with corporate users is Access. It's a lousy database but people get sent Access databases all the time and are expected to be able to use them.
I thought this was interesting from the article:
"But this is the right thing to do. In the longer view, 2, 3, 5 years from now...this will have been the right call.
When do they expect Vista's replacement to come out? In a decade?
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Bad Link-ola!
Actually, the Indian programmers were all imported to the Microsoft campus at Redmond. Take a look at the IEBlog--one of the posts has a photograph of the IE development team. All Indian.
I wouldn't exactly blame Vista's delays on the nationality of the programmers, though. This is a management issue, pure and simple. Good programmers are easy to come by--good management is not. Jim Alchin is retiring, so it's not as if Microsoft could fire him, but Ballmer at the least really should go.
No thanks. Linux still has issues with usability and support. It's certainly far beyond where it was even two years ago, but it's still not enough.
At this point the only true alternative is OS X, and I hesitate to call it an alternative given how far ahead OS X is of everything else.
MS ping...
Don't get me started about Fedora.
It just works. It is damn easy to install.
I also have Solaris 10. It is hard as hell to install. It does not work out of the box the way Fedora does.
"Friday car".
I like that.
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