Comments on: Microsoft: We Don’t Suck As Hard As You Think!

By: Xander

Xander — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:37:39 +0000

I haven’t seen these ads, but you’ve definitely hit the nail on the head regarding Vista. My girlfriend recently had a laptop die on her that was still under warranty, so she went into Best Buy to get it replaced. They talked her into taking one with Vista, and she loved it at first, but the more she uses it the more she hates it. Sure, it’s pretty and slick, but I’ve never seen a less user-friendly OS. Trying to change any settings is a game of trying to guess what random menu (of about twenty) the developers hid it in.

By: Anonymous Prime

Anonymous Prime — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:10:00 +0000

I’m in the midst of preparing a new Vista-infested laptop for my sister, so she can give it to her daughter for her birthday. It so desperately wants to be Mac OS X, and comes oh-so-close, but ultimately misses the point. Also, it doesn’t seem particularly fast, compared to either my Mac Mini or my almost-5-year-old XP tablet.

I know what Xander and his GF are talking about: just getting the wireless hooked up with my router was a small challenge. Not to mention the spelunking I had to do to make sure the wireless actually starts at startup like it should (the default was “manual” for some reason).

By: ewhac

ewhac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:31:44 +0000

I’m convinced that, when Douglas Adams was writing about the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, he was actually writing about Microsoft: “Their fundamental design flaws are almost completely obscured by their superficial design flaws.”

“Go stick your head in a pig.”

By: Swifty

Swifty — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:18:28 +0000

Sigh.

Sometimes, I really really miss the overall stability of DOS.

By: K

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:37:21 +0000

DOS is dead. Dead Operating System, if you will. But it was truly wonderful. Even Windows 3.1 was bearable, back when you could ACTUALLY FUCKING EXIT MICROSOFT WINDOWS

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:12:35 +0000

Vista has been working fine for 9 monyhs on my machine. Just because it is different from whatever you use doesn’t make it bad.

By: spinn

spinn — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:26:59 +0000

Anon: your last sentence is correct. However, it’s not on topic.

But regardless: my PC at home uses Vista. I don’t enjoy it.

By: rJakobi

rJakobi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:52:35 +0000

Being a Mac person, you’d expect me to laugh at all you people, but to be honest, it is becoming apparent that I need to update to Leopard and thus clog up my eMac with applications with no real-life applications, and am thus am consoling you on this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:29:46 +0000

Spinn, I feel that last sentence of mine is completely on topic. When people comment with things likd “it wants to be OS X but it isn’t,” it’s relevant. When people say “XP is better,” it’s relevant. It is not OS X, it is not XP, it is not DOS. It doesn’t work the same way. It’s sufficiently different from XP that I had to learn how to redo some things. I don’t like the way it does everything, but I haven’t run into anything that’s been a roadblock. I think the Mojave Experiment illustrates the fact that many people decided against Vista without ever giving it a chance. Unlike a lot of people I don’t give a damn about what OS I use as long as I can do what I want me my computer and Vista has been no more trouble than any other OS I’ve used.

By: spinn

spinn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:27:24 +0000

Hm, I have a habit of thinking that comments to my blog are to my entry, rather than to the other comments.

But, going back and looking at the comments, it still looks like you’re off target: the two anti-Vista comments here aren’t just “I don’t like it”, they’re people with use experience who say why (”girlfriend hates it the more she uses it”, “getting the wireless hooked up with my router was a small challenge”).

Seems hard to make a case about people pre-judging Vista when the comments specifically said they’ve used it and don’t like it.

By: Anonymous Prime

Anonymous Prime — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:56:32 +0000

Anon, riddle me this:

Tell me why the power/battery icon has disappeared from the lower right corner, and why the checkbox to turn it back on is dimmed out.

Oh, and try to find a solution that doesn’t involve editing the registry.

By: Anonymous Prime

Anonymous Prime — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:15:04 +0000

rJakobi:

I use Leopard on my home machine (a Mac Mini), but still use Tiger on my 1.4GHz emac at work. I like Leopard, but in retrospect, I see no urgent need to upgrade to it, unless your favorite app now requires it, or you really, really want Time Machine or something.

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