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Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience
Lucas123 writes "While on stage at a Gartner's ITxpo conference today, Ballmer got an ear-full from the mother of a 13-year-old girl who said after installing Vista on her daughter's computer she decided only two days later to switch back to XP because Vista was so difficult. Ballmer defended Vista saying: 'Your daughter saw a lot of value'; to which the mother replied: 'She's 13.' Ballmer said that Vista is bigger than XP, and 'for some people that's an issue, and it's not going to get smaller in any significant way in SP1. But machines are constantly getting bigger, and [it's] probably important to remember that as well.' Says the mother: 'Good, I'll let you come in and install it for me.'"
once Uncle Steve starts trying to get the printer working, he'll throw a lot more chairs than he does in his office....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
How much of the windows bloat is due to having to be backwards compatible and all the legacy issues that that entails? Wouldn't it be better to start afresh and code up something fast and secure? If a user wanted to be compatible to Windows Me and prior, they could just install some sort of service pack.....
I'll see your hokum and raise you a boondoggle.