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Windows Vista - Not So Bad?
Shantyman writes "ZDNet has a counterpoint to the negative impressions of Vista's Beta 2 going around. Entitled Vista Beta 2, up close and personal, Ed Bott writes: 'I've spent the last three months running beta versions of Windows Vista on the PCs I use for everyday work. February and March were exasperating. April's release was noticeably better, and the Beta 2 preview - Build 5381, released to testers in early May - has been running flawlessly on my notebook for nearly three weeks.'"
Wow it runs on at least one computer. Excellent! Good job Microsoft.
Anyone one else got it working yet? Maybe you can get your story posted to Slashdot too.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
MS's checks from april and may cleared.
Just two things to say about dogfood:
1) Food is what goes into a dog, not what comes out of a dog. (Corollary: That which comes out of a dog isn't food.)
2) It's coming out of the end of the dog into which food doesn't go. (Corollary: Unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case, we don't wanna know.)
I love it. "Failure Type: OS Stopped Working." Real informative there!
I have to say that MS must have enormous balls to add a "stability monitor" to Windows.
"Stability Index" is going to become the new "Uptime".
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Have you ever watched a dog? They eat their own shit/vomit all of the time, just like MS.
"Buy Windows Vista - It's not so bad!"
;)
I wonder when Slashdot get's their creative fee?
Windows Vista "Not so bad"
Windows Vista "Almost as good as XP"
Windows Vista "Several new themes"
I think microsoft has a winner here
+1 fashionably cynical
I will be sure to shit on their lawn the next time I'm on the Microsoft campus!
To be fair to Microsoft in the screenshot it has 8 preset colours but also a transparency bar and a colour mixer to select your own settings, so it is dynamic
So you're saying that I can choose any colour?
I'll probably be modded down for this...
Windows Vista - It doesn't suck! Really! No, really. ...
ok, stop it. Really! ...
Well, maybe a little.
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
The way the market is evolving Vista will probably end up being installed on more laptops than desktops.
The rate Vista is evolving, it will be installed on Bio-neural gel packs ...
Move Sig. For great justice.
Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I have to attribute Microsoft's success to lemmings. Bear with me here for a moment. Yes, I know that Disney herded a bunch of them off a cliff for its movie, and that the entire notion of "lemmings" is just a myth, I only mean to use it as a metaphor.
:-)
Why do people upgrade their copies of Windows? Because everybody else is. And sooner or later, people no longer support the old versions. You can't read the new Word documents, you can't get drivers, when security vulnerabilities come out, you're just hosed (or pwn3d, as the case may be).
So basically, the reason Microsoft is still successful is that, like Disney did, it hurds all of the poor consumers off of the cliff with every new release, away from something with flaws they'd almost worked around, compensated for, or at least gotten used to, and off into a huge sea of new, buggy, insecure code.
It's not so unlike Lemmings, the video game. I still remember making all those poor little guys blow up for fun
Build 5381, released to testers in early May - has been running flawlessly on my notebook for nearly three weeks.
Have you actually used the pc for other than table dressing or to run a screen saver?
Rick B.
The Microsoft employee has deliberately misstated Apple's functionality.
Send me a check for USD$100,000 and I'll deliberately lie to promote Longwait over all other operating systems for 12 months.
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html
> Microsoft eating their own dogfood?
Just two things to say about dogfood:
1) Food is what goes into a dog, not what comes out of a dog. (Corollary: That which comes out of a dog isn't food.)
2) It's coming out of the end of the dog into which food doesn't go. (Corollary: Unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case, we don't wanna know.)
If you remain uncertain about point 2, a simple test will suffice.
Put your finger into the dog's mouth. If you cannot feel any teeth, then that isn't the mouth. What you are feeling with your finger probably isn't food, either.
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
Three weeks?
Be still, my heart.
I've got an old Linux box here that has nearly three years
uptime...
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Gotta no respect. Hey!
Vista not so bad.
Vista nicea face, ah shudduppa your face.
I fear only the Aussies will understand the reference. It won't be as funny if it has to be explained but the following song made it to number one many moons ago here in Aus:
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while this has raised my confidence in windows vista somewhat, it has disproportionately lowered my confidence in the Microsoft campus cafeteria food.