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Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the business-gets-surly dept.

amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."

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  1. OK... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they had me right until the point where they say "XP is a perfectly fine operating system".

    1. Re:OK... by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Well, it may not be perfectly fine, but for a large number of users it is tolerable enough to not make them want to immediately switch to something else.
      Clearly Windows XP has failed where Me succeeded.
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  2. Re:How about this aspect? by w33t · · Score: 4, Funny
    There are still thousands and thousands of business machines churning away on 98,

    I don't think "churning" is the quite the right word, maybe "lurching" would be a better description.
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  3. Thurrot Proposing big changes? by Senjutsu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paul Thurrott:
    Even calling this thing Windows Mail is an insult. The Windows name should only be added to first rate products.

    But what would they call their operating system, then?

  4. Re:I'm jaded and even I actually like Vista by ConsumerOfMany · · Score: 4, Funny
    How many of these mental giants would expect ferrari performance from a stock Civic?

    I would guess hundreds of thousands considering the number of huge mufflers and space wings I see glued onto primer gray Honda's..

  5. Boycott Windows 2000 a useless update to OS/2 by IntergalacticWalrus · · Score: 4, Funny

    A perfectly fine operating system.

    That is until IBM killed it.

  6. Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It took a bit of tweaking with permissions and ownerships but I finally got it working properly -- as I'm sure any geek with a bit of UNIX background (and groking the concept of file permission and ownership) would have been able to do the same."

    It did take a while, because I kept trying to chmod the files. All I kept getting back was - 'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So I tried reading the man pages on chmod. Guess what happened??

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  7. Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny
    It did take a while, because I kept trying to chmod the files. All I kept getting back was - 'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So I tried reading the man pages on chmod. Guess what happened??

    That's because the Windows command for 'chmod' is 'del', and the equivalent of 'man chmod' is 'format c:'.

    Have fun!

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