“Microsoft slams coffin lid on Vista”
“Service pack-free OS life support switched off as few mourn passing”. And good riddance to bad rubbish. Too bad they’ll have to keep supporting Vista SP1 and SP2 for a while longer.
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“Microsoft: Vista desktop key to life fulfillment”
According to a Microsoft-employed psychologist, I’m a “shy and retiring type” (because my computer’s desktop uses a plain blue background) “who likes to feel in control” (as shown by the neat rows of icons there). Thank goodness Microsoft is around to provide these insights. I’d never have known otherwise. 😉
“Microsoft mojo deflated by Seinfeld Vista ads”
Could also be legitimately titled “what not to do in advertising.”
“Now that Vista is now the only Windows you can buy preinstalled…”
Apparently a lot of people have decided to avoid Windows Vista. Good for you, guys! 🙂
“Microsoft: Vista feature designed to ‘annoy users'”
Surprise, surprise. 🙂
“Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP”
Microsoft finally woke up and realized that people aren’t going to pay their usual rate for OEM copies of Windows when the PC itself is under $200, so they’ve decided to allow those computers to run Windows XP — the previous (and in many peoples’ opinion, better) version of Windows — instead of ceding the …
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“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
“Microsoft battles Vista perception issues with $15,000 prize”
This quote pretty much covers it: In what can only be described as an act of utter desperation to overcome Vista’s mostly negative public perception issues, Microsoft Australia has put together an online “Fact or Fiction†quiz all about Windows Vista. Un-frickin’-believable. Squared.
“Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year? | APC Magazine”
Great. If it reverses some of the truly bone-headed decisions that Vista was graced with — such as the Hollywood-friendly but user-hostile DRM stuff that’s built in — then it can’t come soon enough. And apparently even Microsoft secretly agrees… Pulling such a major release forward would be out of character for Microsoft. Could this …
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“Vista SP1 a Performance Dud”
Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference: Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of …