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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. As for me... by Lord+Aurora · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I'm reserving judgement on Vista until it's out of the gates. All of this pre-release speculation is normal, even expected. I remember when a newer version of our Toyota was scheduled to come out, everyone insisted that we shouldn't upgrade. The day after it became available, our old van exploded in a massive ball of fire and steel and discarded french fries.

    Needless to say, we bought the new van.

    Anyway.

    Thought that might be relevant.

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  2. Re:The same thing was said about XP by Klaidas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What, you mean 640K is not enough for you?
    Oh, wait...

  3. LOL by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the article:

    The Windows name should only be added to first rate products.

    That is just beyond parody.

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