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Why "Vista" Nick White Left Microsoft

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the spinning-the-spin-control dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week Nick White, Product Manager for Windows Vista and blogger at WindowsVistaBlog, announced that he was leaving Microsoft. Geek.com previously interviewed Nick about what SP1 for Vista was all about, so they sat down with him yesterday to get the details behind his departure, his proudest moments at Microsoft, a few regrettable moments, and more."

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  1. For those not into RTFA by kipman725 · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those not into RTFA here is a summary: Proudest moment: Dodging the chair as I ran out the door Details Behind departure: DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS... need more be said?

  2. Eeenteresting by 26199 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So he sounds like a reasonable guy, and from what he says he was allowed to be honest and make his own decisions.

    Unfortunately it's one of the laws of PR that a dishonest PR person can claim to be honest just as easily as an honest one.

    Ah well. I have faith in humanity! I believe him.

  3. Re:What a bunch of convoluted nonsense by hondo77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Merriam-Webster also defines shill as "one who makes a sales pitch or serves as a promoter".

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  4. Re:What a bunch of convoluted nonsense by hullabalucination · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you quit shilling for Merriam-Webster?

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  5. Re:Propaganda by Technician · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't believe the propaganda is so blatant!

    I'm glad you brought that up.

    Here is an example;
    "Frankly, I think Windows Vista has gotten a bum rap, as I use it every day - even after having left MS - and I would have a hard time using anything else and still be as productive."

    He gave the reason I gave up on Vista. I couldn't get anything done. In a meeting I tried to show a DVD. It started OK but stopped to ask if I wanted to upgrade my AV. The stupid computer asked me to upgrade now, even though we were doing a presentation and had no network connections at the time. I wounder if it would have crashed if I told it to upgrade.

    We wrote documents and tried to send them to the laser instead of the default inkjet printer. Couldn't find any way to do it without changing the default printer. Later a Google search told me to use the big round logo. It's really a button. Who would of guessed?

    The Ubuntu install went fine. I was able to log into my network, attach to printers, edit documents, burn CD's, edit photos, scan documents, etc. on the default setup. Vista was full of shareware requesting upgrades for everything. Almost nothing worked. It couldn't log into my servers, I couldn't select printers without a Google search, and movies stopped after playing for 15 minutes for a stupid dialog box.

    With lots of training and system customization, I might be able to become productive on Vista, but the first attempts very poor.

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  6. Re:Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm, let's think about this:

    - The DVD playback software doesn't sound a Vista component itself, although it's hard to tell from your description.

    - "stopped to ask if I wanted to upgrade my AV" - Anti-Virus? That sounds like a 3rd party component rather than a piece of Vista.

    - The "big round logo" is a part of Office 2007, which is not part of Vista. It looks exactly the same on XP.

    - The "Shareware requesting updates" are not part of Vista and were installed by your computer manufacturer.

    Sounds like you got a crappy OEM machine and none of these are really Vista issues ...