__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:43 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:32:32 +0000
> <1933206.OSkNj9q7fs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
>> | island which is paralysed by coups.
>> |
>> | In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
>> | Vista has "high impact" problems.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
>>
>> According to Jo Foley, going back to her Microsoft-Watch days (she has a
>> dipute with them now), Fiji was slated to be the next version of Windows,
>> not a Service Pack.
>
> Wow. It's like they can't aim anywhere else *but* their foot. :-)
There's more on the in Slashdot, with many comments appended. I only found
out about this after I had quoted the Inquirer's Editor in Chief, which
isn't as credible. Apparently, "high impact problems" is the way Microsoft
described Vista's state when addressing testers of the Service Pack.
Essentially, anyone who buys Vista when it's launched is virtually a
alpha-beta tester.
See below:
Vista sends 49,693 page print job to printer
,----[ Quote ]
| Well obviously I didn't intend for this to happen. I chose file->print
| inside Firefox 2.0.0.1 running on Vista Enterprise. I just assumed
| it printed the one page I requested, but when I went to the printer
| in the next room, I discovered it was spewing out pages with nothing
| but the header and footer from Firefox. Great work, Microsoft. Or
| maybe it is Firefox's fault? Who the hell knows.
`----
http://www.hinerman.net/blog/?p=63
Vista Bug re-appears
,----[ Quote ]
| Nice... minus one million, three hundred eight thousand, two
| hundred fifty nine bytes... how is that any where near or
| mathematically altered to 2.11 MB?
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http://jadeallen.com/toms/index.asp?DoAction=ReadDay&ID=359
Windows Vista's Hideous Wakeup Support
,----[ Quote ]
| One thing we just can't wrap our mind about is the terrible,
| broken, and completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from
| a Deep Sleep or hibernation.' Any time you attempt to wake Vista
| up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it
| dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network,
| no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on. So much for an
| operating system to "power" the future! (No pun intended!) That's
| with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on
| multiple PCs...
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/299
TI won't rush into Microsoft Vista readily
,----[ Quote ]
| Corporate American, no, make that corporate everywhere is treating Vista
| like a dead animal found in the woods, they will poke it with a stick,
| but there is no way they will take it home. Take TI for instance, it
| is not going to touch the wonder OS for another two years or so.
`----
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36259
Installing A PS/2 Mouse Turns Off Firewall, Huh!
,----[ Quote ]
| I plugged in the PS/2 mouse, rebooted the PC and on restart XP found the
| PS/2 mouse and suggested rebooting again, which I did. When it restarted
| the Microsoft Firewall had been switched off. How do I know, because it
| told me I had no firewall.
`----
http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/ps2-mouse-turns-off-firewall/
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 Sucks!
,----[ Quote ]
| I know Microsoft's release of IE 7.0 is in beta, but I still didn't
| expect it to be such a big piece of crap and cause hours of misery.
|
| [...]
|
| What Microsoft hoped would help it win back Firefox "switchers" has
| done nothing but add one more to their growing ranks.
`----
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/02/microsoft-ie-70-sucks.html
Just One Question For Vista: Does It Simply Work -- Like An Apple?
,----[ Quote ]
| Jim Allchin responds over on his blog regarding a recent news report
| quoting him as saying that he would have bought a Mac if he weren't
| working for Microsoft in an email to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
|
| [...]
|
| So the challenge for Microsoft, and in some ways to an even larger
| extent Allchin himself personally, is to ship Vista in a state that
| is as bug free as the Mac.
|
| Vista is Allchin's final legacy at Microsoft. After a long successful
| career this is his last hurah and in order to be successful it simply
| must be perfect.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061213/22341_id.html?.v=1
Life with Vista - Is this dogfood really for the dogs?
,----[ Quote ]
| I'm an absolute freak when it comes to .NET technologies. My blog
| is called the ".NET Addict", so it should be pretty obvious that
| the day Vista's RTM build came out, I downloaded it and installed
| it on every Vista-capable machine I had in my possession. I've
| been using Vista for several weeks now and I've come to a couple
| of conclusions that I think might startle and shock some of you.
`----
http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/vista_dogfood.htm
He claims RTM is in the state of a beta.
Vista Breaks Applications
,----[ Quote ]
| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Vista... Don't Try to Copy and Paste
,----[ Quote ]
| Vista gave me the following when trying to copy a
| file:
|
| Error 0x800705AD. Ohh, well of course... I should have known error
| 0x800705AD means the user tried to COPY AND PASTE. Are you shitting
| me?! Insufficient quota? WTF are you talking about Vista. First
| let's check that I have enough disk space:
|
| Ok, now by my calculations 413 MBs < 22.8 GBs. I can normally
| figure out almost any computer related problem.
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http://buckwheats.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/vista%e2%80%a6-don%e2%80%99t-try-to-copy-and-paste-o/
Analysts: Microsoft Changes Meaning Of 'Release Candidate'
,----[ Quote ]
| Two industry watchers say Microsoft is corrupting the term, leading to
| major confusion among customers and others about whether the operating
| system is truly ready to evaluate.
|
| Two analysts Thursday accused Microsoft Corp. of changing the meaning
| of "release candidate" by pushing out a version of Windows Vista that
| still needs major work.
|
| [...]
|
| Joe Wilcox, an analyst with JupiterResearch, said that Microsoft's
| corrupted the term.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192700055&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
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