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Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product

Posted by kdawson on from the foregone-conclusion dept.

Shadow7789 writes "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC World has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"

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  1. I didn't find it disappointing by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    But my expectations were 0 to begin with. Can't disappoint from there.

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    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
    1. Re:I didn't find it disappointing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, Microsoft actually met someone's expectations!

      Great job, guys!

    2. Re:I didn't find it disappointing by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

      No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft We look back at our complaints over XP and are forced to reflect on our simple naïveté.

      Nihilism means nothing to the dancing peasants.
      --
      "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
      Never been known to fail..."
    3. Re:I didn't find it disappointing by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

      I expected Vista to be the cause of countless stories on Slashdot. Apparently I'm in the wrong line of work, seeing as how I can see the future...

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      512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
    4. Re:I didn't find it disappointing by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      But my expectations were 0 to begin with. Can't disappoint from there.

      I was hoping for an install CD completely full of ones myself. I got ripped off- half of them are missing.

  2. Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007? by QuickFox · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be new here. The instant anyone bashes Vista it gains credibility on slashdot.

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    Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
  3. Re:It's called a consensus opinion. by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like Vista.

  4. That is fantastic news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    to the 5 people who own a tablet pc

  5. teh irony by derelict_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1267/vistanokx6.jpg

  6. Re:No surprise here, but ... by totally+bogus+dude · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he's retired. His successor is a drinking bird that periodically presses the "Approve submission" button on whichever article is currently pending approval.

  7. Re:disappointing, it is relative! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, in my basement, I run a 1982-vintage VAX-11/785.
    You stud, you.

    And I only have a detailed, working reproduction of a 15th century torture chamber, complete with drain in the middle of the floor.
    --
    You are welcome on my lawn.
  8. Re:I did by silent_artichoke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, the iExpectation is from Apple.

  9. Re:Tablet PC by Snocone · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the sense of the word as it is actually used, agnostic means that God is unknowable, or more precisely, that one *believes* that God is unknowable.

    No, the word agnostic is actually used with the two distinct meanings of personal ignorance and intrinsic unknowability in the same context. They are distinguished when necessary with a qualifier.

    WEAK agnosticism: I have no fucking idea who fucked this shit up.
    STRONG agnosticism: Nobody has any fucking idea who fucked this shit up.

    There is a certain confusion with weak atheism which could (and frequently does) arise, but that is properly reserved for the category of theological noncognitivists,

    WEAK atheism: What the fuck do you mean with this God shit?
    STRONG atheism: Didn't take any God to fuck this shit up.

    which is different again from weak theism.

    WEAK theism: Somebody fucked this shit up.
    STRONG theism: God fucked this shit up.

    An interesting cross-categorical theological belief not easily represented above is

    DEISM: God set this shit up and it fucked itself.

    And of course, theological Slashdotism,

    SOVIET RUSSIA: This shit fucks YOU up!