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Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment Exposes Serious Vista Problems
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| And Shut Up About Security, You’re Only Making Things Worse.
| Microsoft also works hard to advertise Vista’s stronger security, a notable
| improvement. The company says, “Windows Vista has fewer than half the
| security vulnerabilities of Windows XP,” but that claim relates directly to
| the fact that Microsoft itself releases the majority of vulnerability reports
| for its products because the open source community doesn’t have the same
| access to discover and publicize its weaknesses as Linux, Mac OS X, or other
| products making use of open source code. Microsoft’s Vista vulnerability
| count is therefore about as useful as China’s reports on its own human rights
| violations.
|
| [...]
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| Over the last decade, Microsoft has been content to collect licensing money
| for warmed up old code without regard for security or features. No amount of
| Mojave marketing tricks can disguise the problem that the company shipped an
| Edsel with Vista: a product it arrogantly assumed the market would buy simply
| because it was Microsoft pushing it out. Let’s see how well the company does
| with some friendly competition.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/15/microsofts-mojave-experiment-exposes-serious-vista-problems/
This one is funny:
Voting Machines
http://xkcd.com/463/
Recent:
Bypassing Microsoft Vista's Memory Protection
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| This is huge...
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/bypassing_micro.html
Why the 'Mojave Experiment' Fails
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| 1. Microsoft treats its customers like they're stupid. I've had this
| complaint for a decade.
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| [...]
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| 2. Microsoft embarrasses Mojave participates.
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| [...]
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| 3. The marketing campaign blames customers for Vista's problems.
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| [...]
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| 4. Microsoft denies there is a real problem.
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| [...]
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| 5. Mojave seethes with arrogance.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/marketing/why_the_mojave_experiment_fails.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Unwanted licences boost Vista numbers
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| "From the 30th of June, we have no longer been able to ship a PC with an XP
| licence," said Jane Bradburn, a marketing manager for HP Australia. "However,
| what we have been able to do with Microsoft is ship PCs with a Vista Business
| licence but with XP pre-loaded. That is still the majority of business
| computers we are selling today."
|
| Therefore the Vole's claims for high Vista sales figures are merely so much
| steer manure. The major PC vendors are still preloading Windows XP, but
| Microsoft is counting those XP preloads as Vista sales.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/29/vista-sales-really-windows-xp
Related:
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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