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Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista
Barence writes "Microsoft has signed up comedian Jerry Seinfeld to its $300 million Vista PR blitz, as it attempts to turn around the negative perception surrounding its operating system. Reports suggest Bill Gates will also appear in the ads, which, given the comedy timing he displayed in his 'Bill's Last Day' video, and the deadpan manner of Seinfeld, could result in a huge hit for the company." Reader Zarmanto notes in his journal that "Mac users might be quite amused, considering that (like many other TV shows) the set of Seinfeld always had a Macintosh prominently displayed in the background."
Clearly this is simply meaning that Vista has stolen enough ideas from OS X to make even a make user endorse it.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
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Yeah, Vista is da bomb.
And it just keeps bombing.
... hiring some better programmers and project managers to make the next Windows work problem. That and stop paying all licensing for DRM and then ask the DRM people if they want to give it away for free of if they want it not included in Windows.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
So you are basically calling yourself an introverted computer nerd? Wow. That's brutally honest. So when are you going to move out of your mothers basement?
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Yeah, Vista is da bomb.
And it just keeps bombing.
Oh no, it doesn't - it defaults to restart without showing a BSOD, so there!
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
That said I expect Vista to be just like XP. XP took way too many resources to work. I remember how 2000 beat its pants off, sp2 or sp3 will be released, people will use it, and then they'll move on to 7.
Only after a year and a half of posting, "Windows 7 sucks so hard! I have Vista, and it works just fine! Why would anybody need any of the new stuff in Windows 7?" on Slashdot.
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Sorry, my cat brushed the keyboard as I was hitting submit.
Oh that's too easy. Your cat?! Of course you have a Mac. Let me picture you and your life: a matching glass and stainless steel desk, lamp, and chair ... that goes so well with your iMac. Square rimmed glasses. All black attire. You listen to Moby. You drive a Subaru Outback or Forester. You work at a bookstore ... and your "partner" is a lawyer.
PS - I have a Mac.
to the pain of transition between Windows 98 and XP.
What the hell are you smoking? Replace XP with ME and you might have a point, but XP makes 98 look like pisswater. And I'm pretty scornful of MS and its products in general.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Older than twelve, but not American, and not obsessed by pop-culture trivia.
Seriously, is it that bad to not instantly recognize the guy's name? By the reaction I'm getting, it's like I've commited a serious /. geek sin or something.
Remember, just because this Jerry Seinfeld guy was a big sitcom star in the USA in the 90's, doesn't mean his name is instantly recognizeable to everyone on earth - I happen to be one of those who honestly didn't know who he was - and I'm finding it a little strange that I was marked -1 Troll, instead of the expected +3 Informative that I was expecting.
Ah well, such is /.
Your being deliberately obtuse doesn't make his premise correct.
Nah, expected to be modded up for providing information about someone who a lot of people just have no information about.
Same with the 'washed up' part - sitcom actors are usually second-rate at best, and if it's been a decade since he's done any acting other than a bit part as a voice actor in some kids movie, he isn't exactly an acting superstar.
I'm sure you meant "At least two platforms". Let's go with that because I know there are many platforms that like Vista well. That's not the point. It has been reported it doesn't run well on most of them. It's not well compatible with a great many platforms and applications and you know it. People who don't have it yet don't know which platforms it runs well on but they know it doesn't run well on many that have the Vista sticker and so there's no reliable way to try it with confidence. Since it offers no new benefits the transition must be painless if you expect people to adopt it. There are a lot of people who, for some godforsake reason, want to adopt it, but they can't because either their platforms won't support it, or one of their 125 mission critical apps doesn't. If you would promote Vista you should focus on fixing their uncertainty by getting somebody at work to publish a list of platforms that it honestly runs well on: not platforms that are "Vista Ready" or "Vista Capable". Let me suggest "Vista Plus!" or "Mojave Ready". I'm trying to help you out here - I don't know why. By removing the uncertainty you can eliminate much of the uptake resistance. The "Try it yourself!" theme only works if, when people try it, it works well and on average that's not happening in the field. If your company won't honestly do that then you're digging a deeper hole than you can climb out of and W7, "Based on Vista" is born with an albatross around its neck.
They should probably send somebody over to Novell to help them with the Novell Client compatibility too. Novell just ain't cuttin it and saving Vista may be more important in the long run than driving the last nail into the coffin of Novell's server OS. That'd probably get them some slack with the EC and in other forums where they're facing antitrust issues. The Novell server will die off on its own soon enough because it sucks geoducks.
And your images were not screen caps of TV. They were screen caps of a DVD and to be straight even though most people can't, I can unlock DVDs so they play without DRM even on Vista with Media Player and I'm sure you can too. I'm not even sure that DVD comes with protection. Show me some CNN in HD and then you've got something.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Exactly.
Here's a MULTI-billionaire hiring another "popular" billionaire to sell his product-
Meanwhile a bunch of poor slashdot users, living in momma's basement are "yuk-yuking" over these stupid rich folls and their crappy Vista.
"Golly! Why don't they just switch to Linux like we use? Don't THEY KNOW? I almost have Mom converted to it now!"
Ummm.. does anyone see something odd about this picture?
Migod, sometimes these weenies are so pathetic...
-Written on Vista-SP1 on a *slow* Celeron laptop, while I'm concurrently doing all kinds of FTPs, Flash-compiles and chatting on MSN - +some JPG editing.
Oh yeah- I'm also watching a DVD-movie on the 2nd screen. LOL! Don't ask me to try THIS on Ubuntu!
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