The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
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| #1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
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| Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
Leopard and iPhone are there also. This awful publicity keeps spreading:
ABC News: The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=4009365&page=1
Related:
Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech products of all
time
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| Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9823042-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
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| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
Longhorn Server Comes When?
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| But there are increasing signs Microsoft won't make its date.
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| Windows Vista is good example of how the process works. Microsoft
| makes subtle announcements that point to eventual delay.Then the
| bomb drops. In November 2005, Microsoft canceled its scheduled
| Vista CTP (Community Technology Preview) and stopped talking
| about Beta 2 as, well, Beta 2. Microsoft's excuse: The Vista
| development team had received so much feedback, Microsoft had
| to throttle back test builds. Huh? Four months later, Microsoft
| said that Vista would miss holiday 2006.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/longhorn_server_comes_when.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop?
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| If you buy-off on the theory that the world seems to be heading in the
| opposite direction that Microsoft wants to lead it, then you can’t help but
| wonder what the long term prospects for an offering like Windows Home Server
| are. Not good, if you ask me.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=791
Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off
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| Before Apple makes any more smug OS-related attacks on Microsoft, it ought to
| take a good look in the mirror.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2223921,00.asp
Apple's Xmas gift: wireless networking problems
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| In October, the Apple faithful received the latest, greatest update to their
| much-vaunted operating system, Mac OS X. As with every other upgrade, it has
| a wonderful name: Leopard.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15705/1091/
Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard
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| Aaaand … poof!
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| The directory on our Desktop is now gone. The directory shown in the C$ mount
| will only contain files that were copied entirely before the connection was
| disrupted, but nothing more (in the demonstration case, there’s only one file
| in "test", so nothing was copied successfully).
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| [...]
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| Where’s the rest of our data?
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| Apple, please FTFF already. This is unacceptable.
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http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/
Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us
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| Mac OS X 10.5.1 will likely arrive around Thanksgiving with fixes for most of
| the problems encountered by the brave early adopters.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9809571-37.html
Some Leopard upgraders see 'blue screen of death'
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| A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported
| that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up,
| showing only an interminable -- and very Windows-like -- "blue screen of
| death."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9044378
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