On Sat 10 Feb 2007 12:48:29p, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
> Dim Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50
>| millio lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring
>| than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow'
>| Starts Now," and Microsoft touts new features, many filched
>| shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous
>| version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at
>| best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond,
>| Wash. and rip somebody's liver out.
>|
>| Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of
>| patched-up old ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult
>| supervision running things. If I can find plenty of problems
>| in a matter of hours, why can't Microsoft? Most likely answer:
>| It did--and it doesn't care.
> `----
>
> http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/050.html?partner=yahoomag
>
> Finally. An objective (not promotional) review from a major
> publication. Due to be released in February 26th.
Sounds typically Microsoft. Promising the moon, delivering a picture of
a moon rock -- and using their early buyers as beta testers.
I haven't been keeping tract (either of the hype or released reality),
but what percentage of the promised new features actually made it into
Vista? And how many of those have been in Linux or Mac OS for years
now?
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
|
|
