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Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.'
torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott answers the question that some IT folks are asking: 'Is Windows Vista Ready?' His answer is not only no, but 'No. God, no. Today's Windows Vista builds are a study in frustration, and trust me, I use the darn thing day in and day out, and I've seen what happens when you subject yourself to it wholeheartedly. I think I've mentioned the phrase "I could hear the screams" on the SuperSite before.' He also addresses the more important question, 'When Will Microsoft figure out what's important?' and to Paul, like most IT pros, its not about when the next OS will be released, it is about having the OS work."
I think I've mentioned the phrase "I could hear the screams" on the SuperSite before.'
Yes, it's almost as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Maybe he's Fair and Balanced. After all, we had all kinds of opinions about his WGA reporting.
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Windows XP isnt ready as a fully featured stable product yet.
I believe that is called "pulling a 3d Realms".
Badass Resumes
So Vista isn't close to being ready. I'm sure that if it is pushed to shelves as scheduled, that nobody will buy it because it is so incomplete. And nobody will pirate it either. This will definitely be the Windows killer that we have been hoping for.
Right.
Microsoft can box up a petrified turd and people will still buy it.
How could it be ready yet? They haven't perfected the DRM obviously, and you can't release an operating system that might allow someone to burn CDs with impunity, or use an evil analog video input device.
Oh You POS
That's the hottest thing I've heard all day.
" I especially like the way I can't delete certain items from the desktop (randomly, it seems, like a game)"
I think we recently read about MS' new and improved casual games on Vista
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
"...like most IT pros, its not about when the next OS will be released, it is about having the OS work."
Yeah, you first have to release the patch to patch the patch that patched the patch before the patch. Once the patches are in place, you gotta patch those. Then the OS might work. If not, patch it again.
And then there are the online pundits, many of whom are barely old enough to legally buy alcohol. These guys are classic. Let's just say that a lack of experience and a strongly worded opinion don't result in the most coherent of arguments and leave it at that.
You mean, a girl like this?
Yes, why?
Here is what even funny. Co-workers have Dell machines (Intel Pentium 4 CPUs) with 1-2 GB of RAM, and THEIRS run slower than mine!!
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Thats great for you, but how many times has solitare crashed for you? Well if your answer is like most all XP/Windows users, then ***that*** is what is defined as stable for them. AND, solitare has been redesigned! A (if not THE) reason for people to upgrade!
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
How can Vista possibly be ready on time?
They should just change the name to Microsoft Vista Forever and then they can take as long as they want.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
"I dare say that even the best of us could not say with certainty the exact day that a project of this scale would be released."
While not an exact day, I feel comportable saying: before the heat death of the universe... maybe.
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I'm still downgrading to Vista the second it's released.
it's technically possible to build your own house using nothing more than an axe and a drill. . .
And if I've got an axe, I'll make the drill. Actually, only the axe head is the important bit to start out with, although chopping down that first hickory might go a bit slow.
Ahhhhhhhhh, screw it. I'm just gonna build with stone and mud.
KFG
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You mean you need 32 bits to have long filenames?
/etc and not cd/etc or cd\etc
Will we hear the same bullsh*t when moving to 64 bits?
Anyway, the CD command always had very dumb parameter conventions. Maybe they have now fixed that.
For example:
- you can type the pathname after CD without space, like CD\Windows
- it accepts pathnames with spaces without quoting them, like CD \Program Files\Internet Explorer
Users switching from commandline-Windows to a Linux commandline interpreter often do not understand why they should type cd
But other commands in the Windows CLI do not offer this freedom. I think it was a big mistake.
"taking as long as they want" is what they do in the release/support phase.
Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.
No, Vista will definitely be released before the year 2029; The Terminator clearly tells you this when he says "Hasta la Vista, baby".
Plus, I heard that when Vista is finally ready to ship, it will arrive bundled with a FREE copy of Duke Nukem Forever!!
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Oh pflease...
I liked my next sig a lot better