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David Pogue Takes On Vista
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.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Microsoft is just trying to express how much they love Apple.
Gee man, it's called an existentialist symlink, one of the new features of the Vista filesystem: the symlink is there, but it doesn't point at any file or serve any function. Pogue clearly demonstrates Vista's superiority here!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This is a double feature. Its a "Slashdot Editors Suck" article AND a "Someone Doesn't Like Vista" article!
Its like Christmas a week early!
I didn't notice when I clicked on it, was it Zonk?
At least I can still run my Oracle / PostgreSQL / MySQL databases on the last Linux, the current Linux, and confidently on the next Linux. Seems for now I'll have to keep that stupid Windows 2003 server box around to keep SQL server running for an app that requires it...
"Are we going to get a "someone doesn't like Vista" article every day until the operating system is released to the general public?"
Great. Another year and a half of these articles then.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Yeah, what's up with summaries and leaving stuff out?
Almost every time I read a summary, there are parts from the article missing!
It's a bloody pain in the ass to port UNIX/POSIX/Linux software to it, unlike OS X.
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"Are we going to get a "someone doesn't like Vista" article every day until the operating system is released to the general public?"
Yes...and then we'll get a "everyone doesn't like Vista" article every day. ^_^
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http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a71
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Until then, let's hope some enterprising Slashdot reader downloads a copy of Vista and offers something more substantive for discussion.
Which I'm sure would read along the lines of Windoze teh suckerz.
The question to ask, is, why use a knockoff like Windows when you can have the original?
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Because I can't find a place that sells Xerox Altos?
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
I watched the video, which was actually some nice tongue-in-cheeck humor. Now I don't have much experiance with Mac OS, besides once getting frustrated because as a Windowised user I could find my way around and being too impatient to learn more about it.
Now having played with Vista and finding my way around it, the video suggest that the move to OS-X would be easier then ever!
Supporting MS products doesn't mean you have to like them.
I don't know what you all are talking about. It must be a problem with both Windows and Linux. The video link works perfectly fine on my Mac. ;)
This guy's the limit!
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