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David Pogue Takes On Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the vista-with-an-X dept.

guruevi writes to let us know about a review of Microsoft Vista in the NY Times, in the form of an article and a video, by the known Mac-friendly David Pogue. In the article, Pogue recasts Microsoft's marketing mantra for Vista: "Clear, Confident, Connected" becomes "Looks, Locks, Lacks." Pogue writes that Vista is such a brazen rip-off of Mac OS X that "There must be enough steam coming out of Apple executives' ears to power the Polar Express." But the real fun is in the video, in which Pogue attempts to prove that Vista is not simply an OS X clone.

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  1. Excellent and very true by network23 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Pogue is correct. Vista is a joke and MacOS X the coming leader.


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  2. Yeah, mod parent down by morboIV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's doubleplusungood slashthink, comrades. Keep modding him flamebait.

  3. Tagging Beta by dekkerdreyer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    lame,slownewsday (tagging beta)

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  4. Re:Some... by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is because Windows Longhorn/Vista/whatever has been in development for YEARS. Microsoft always promises the world, to prevent people from jumping ship, since the features they need are "almost there" and "will be available as a service pack", etc.

    Despite closing with some pseudo-technical sounding posts about "architecture", your troll-fu is weak.

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  5. Without Apple by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They'd have nobody to copy. Microsoft don't do anything unless they're forced to. Without Apple you would still be using MS DOS.

    The question to ask, is, why use a knockoff like Windows when you can have the original? Especially when the TCO for Apple systems are a fraction of those for equivalent Windows systems.

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    1. Re:Without Apple by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      They'd have nobody to copy. Microsoft don't do anything unless they're forced to. Without Apple you would still be using MS DOS.

      Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.

      The question to ask, is, why use a knockoff like Windows when you can have the original?

      It's faster, cheaper and runs more software. Oh, and it's not a "knockoff".

      Especially when the TCO for Apple systems are a fraction of those for equivalent Windows systems.

      Are you Mac Zealots still talking about that TCO study that compared Windows 3.1 and System 7 ?

  6. They think vista is going to consume too much RAM. by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The advantage comes not from the bandwith, but from the latency. That's what filesystem cache is for. What they're saying really is that Vista is going to blow the RAM on all of the existing PCs out there, and this is a kludge to get round spending the extra £20 for the RAM rather than a USB stick.
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  7. Re:Okay we get it by klubar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There's not a lot of fame and glory from writing that Microsoft hit a home run. It's much better to recycle the old "Microsoft copied it from Apple" line. Who cares about who was first.... it's called building on prior art.... now it's up to Apple to see what they can build on from Microsoft (see fast user switching, ethernet) and dropping the failures (see appletalk, ADB, newton, cyberdog, OS 1-9).

  8. Re:Or in other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, this is the same guy who, a while ago, in writing an article on the mac vs pc debate, said that the a reason the corporate world uses windows is because "IT Departments know where their bread is buttered." Such an unfathomable statement is absolutely ridiculous and to me, infuriating. I stopped reading his column very shortly after. He spent the entire next week's column backpedaling, citing in his defense that he wasn't the first person in the world to suggest that. That's unfortunate then that he accused most of the IT world of (in his opinion) knowingly creating an inferior user experience so that they could expand their desktop support budget. Had he thought a moment about this with any analytical mind, it should never have made it on the page, and the fact that it did simply showed the extent of fanboy nature. Not only is Mac better than Windows, but the purveyors of Windows are actually evil.

    Clearly I work in IT, and am sincerely aggravated by him, but no less; take anything he says about windows with a grain of salt, as this guy is fanboy to the core.

  9. Re:Or in other words... by Cerebus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You find me a Dell or HP that:

    1) Has comparable hardware specs,
    2) Has a comparable software load,
    3) Is half the cost of my MacBook

    and we'll talk. Until then, STFU.

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