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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.'"
Cue the transcription of the rest of the argument with Ballmer throwing chairs at the woman and her 13 year old in 3...2...1..
And then he threw a chair at her.
BIFFFFfff!
You made me choke on my cookie. That was hilarious.
It all started going to hell before that. When people stopped having to punch it manually on to tape and run it through a machine, they got soft.
It's sad really, because it does work to just push out a slow and bloated piece of code and wait for the machines to catch up. Get a bigger, better machine, put a new OS on it, and see the complete lack of difference. Takes the same percentage of memory, pushes the processor just as high. Remember when everyone was up in arms because XP SP1 slowed down machines? Everyone who noticed had a new machine 6 months later, and it was a non-issue.
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