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How Vista Disappoints
MCSEBear writes "Writer Paul Thurrott has given Microsoft a verbal dressing down for what has become of Windows Vista. He details Microsoft's broken promises over the years since Longhorn/Vista was first previewed back in 2003. He demonstrates where current Vista builds fail to live up to Microsoft's current hype of the much reduced feature set. From the article: 'I don't hate Windows Vista, and I certainly don't hate Microsoft for disappointing me and countless other customers with a product that doesn't even come close to meeting its original promises. I'm sure the company learned something from this debacle, and hopefully it will be more open and honest about what it can and cannot do in the future ... It some ways, Windows Vista actually will exceed Mac OS X and Linux, but not to the depth we were promised. Instead, Windows Vista will do what so many other Windows releases have done, and simply offer consumers and business users a few major changes and many subtle or minor updates. That's not horrible. It's just not what was promised.'"
1 pound skirt steak, cut into 4 pieces
1 1/2 teaspoons chipotle chile powder, divided
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, divided
6 green onions
2 ears of corn, husked
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon finely grated lime peel
8 5- to 6-inch corn tortillas
Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Sprinkle skirt steak on both sides with salt and 1 1/4 teaspoons chile powder. Whisk 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon lime juice in 11x7-inch glass dish. Add meat and turn to coat; place in single layer. Marinate 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, brush green onions and corn with 1 tablespoon oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill vegetables until slightly charred, turning occasionally, about 2 minutes for green onions and 7 minutes for corn. Working over bowl, cut corn from cob directly into bowl. Coarsely chop green onions and add to corn. Stir in cilantro, lime peel, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon chile powder, 1/2 tablespoon oil, and 1 tablespoon lime juice. Season relish to taste with salt and pepper.
Grill skirt steak to desired doneness, about 2 1/2 minutes per side for medium. Transfer to work surface; let rest 5 minutes.
Place tortillas at edge of grill to warm and soften, about 1 minute.
Arrange 2 warm tortillas on each of 4 plates. Thinly slice skirt steak across grain. Divide skirt steak and juices equally among tortillas. Spoon relish over each and serve.
It's ok though. Ive started browsing these discussions at -1 so I'm sure to get the good comments. Browse at +2 or 3 and all you'll get is "im glad to be a mac user" and "windows sucks"
Truth of the matter is, I think alot of this stems from jealousy, that even with a mediocre product the company is still successful. Go ahead, mod me crappy, you know it's true.
Windows has more viruses because linux has more virus coders.
God, I feel ticklish
Oh wait - God... if you exist, please get this man's comments out there.
KDE and Gnome have a simple dialogs that changes the level and color of transparency in their applications.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Point taken. Grats on all the punting. :)
IIRC didn't Google do all their accounts using Quicken in the early years? I seem to remember reading that and laughing. I think that for intensive apps like CS2 you are right, but what interests me so much is virtualization. If that really can be made to work well, then no-one need be tied to Windows for all their software. Plus, a lot of computers in colleges don't run much more than browsers, email and Office software, and it would be easier just to replace those. Granted, I work in education and we don't have much use for anything beyond the basics.
But I stand by my comment that MS is in a worse situation if VIsta bombs than it was with the appalling ME.
I can't believe I got modded troll above. It seems some people have a problem with basic English comprehension.
"by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS