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Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready
digihome writes "A number of partners and analysts who have downloaded Vista RC1 say the code is solid but they are not convinced it will be ready for release this fall. A Directions on Microsoft analyst said, 'I would call this at best a Beta Three and not a Release Candidate One.'"
I'm getting really tired of people predicting how vista or anything will do based on anecdotal evidence.
Everyone that disagrees with me is a paid shill
So correct me if I'm interpreting your comment incorrectly here, but it looks to me like the fact that I got the number of service packs wrong by two (guess it was NT4 with the six service packs, I kind of remember that now) is what's diminishing the Microsoft influence here. By the way, that's a good thing. Not a bad one. You may disagree, but if you do, you're in the wrong place because the majority of knowledgeable geeks are anti-Microsoft, and the majority of unknowledgeable geeks are fucking annoying and should go away.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
No, the majority of knowledgeable geeks will recognise that Windows, like Linux, BSD, OS X etc. has its place. Its place is currently on cheap off-the-shelf desktop machines, because OS X only ships on relatively expensive Macs and and *nix variety (Except for a couple of flavours) is generally intimidating and a bugger to use with no sense of continuity between applications. Whether you use one on your desktop over the other or not is irrelevant, until you can see that for most people Windows is fine and Linux is, for the most part, a server OS you are fucking annoying and should go away.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Dammit, twitter. Every time I stumble on one of your posts, it's like an icepick in my ear.
Truth hurts? Sorry, most people don't have that problem. Microsoft is a shrinking legacy. Talk to IBM, Lowe's, Chrysler or any of the many big companies tired of wasting money on software that does not work. One day, the message will get past all the built up wax down those ears of yours, but I'm not sure there's anything left on the other side.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.