Comments on: Windows Vista Launches (Yawn)

By: Katalog stron

Katalog stron — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:58:33 +0000

Vista’s ability to search quickly and easily through downloaded web pages and documents is important to me. I use Photoshop and PowerPoint and Outlook and GPS apps that still have not been replaced by web based apps.

By: Druk wielkoformatowy

Druk wielkoformatowy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:57:15 +0000

VISTA= Very Incopatible Slow Antioperationsystem

By: Business & Office

Business & Office — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:50:18 +0000

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By: Jeff McNeill » Blog Archive » Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch

Jeff McNeill » Blog Archive » Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:06:42 +0000

[...] As announced by Anne over on Web Worker Daily: Windows Vista and Office 2007 have launched. [...]

By: Jeff McNeill

Jeff McNeill — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:44:30 +0000

I am a former MCSE who took the first MS Windows95 class in San Francisco (there were six of us attending), and have rolled out NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. I don’t see any difference between the launch of Vista and these others. That is: MS lovers will jump on the release, and I personally know quite a few folks who have been running the beta. Corporate will yawn and ask “where is the value” and slowly get on the bandwagon… that is IF there is greater stability with this version, and their hardware can run it. Dell and others will start shipping bundled boxes at some point, and reinstallation of older OS will stop making sense in what, 1-2 years or so? For me, I always waited for Service Pack 1 (unless there was an immediate and important business need). I prefer to let others do the bug hunting for me.

Now Office 2007 will likely follow the same Office trajectory (very similar to the OS upgrade trajectory above). I also know several people who have installed the beta or even the most recent live release. But this breaks things! Resource requirements loom large. So again, until it becomes part of the defacto bundle, forgetaboutit!

Now, in terms of the functionality or use value, well Firefox with its myriad extensions (http://jeffmcneill.com/firefox/), as well as web services sprouting like mushrooms after a hard rain, and the increasing use of network storage, such as Amazon’s S3, or the great deal from Site5 (http://site5.com/) that provides 55gb of storage for $5/mo (with Flashback (http://www.whatisflashback.com/), backup solution which simply does snapshots of every version of every file), not to mention Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com/) and Java apps like (http://thinkfree.com/) which finally get Java right as a network/desktop app and pretty much emulate MS Office. Hmmm, I am thinking yeah, we all will have Office 2007 at some point, but Office 2010? Maybe not…

By: hellfried

hellfried — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:58:03 +0000

i have gone without winxp for the past one month and am really enjoying my ubuntu edgy experience. being a coward i still have winblows sitting on a separate partition but i don’t see myself using it for any prolonged periods of time.

nope, i don’t think vista will even register on my radar.

By: Ituloy Angsulong

Ituloy Angsulong — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:05:03 +0000

Thanks for the info Engtech

By: notgonnatakeit.com

notgonnatakeit.com — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:30:07 +0000

Our lives should never be that complicated. OY.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:05:20 +0000

A good question, and I wonder if this is the downside of the curve. There must come a point where people have a system that functions for them. The only reason to buy or upgrade would be security. But what can you lose?

As more and more businesses are changing to a web-based approach, using smart phones and so forth, and people in general are using broadband to do everything on-line (MySpace, Bebo, Flikr, webmail), the actual device for interacting is becoming unimportant.

The BIG things at the moment are terrorism, copyright (burning and ripping mainly), viruses, and hacking… most of which is a strange blend of security against the outside world and security for Microsoft and pop stars against lost revenue. All of which are virtual rather than actual or real. The whole lot is hype.

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:48:46 +0000

US Residents can get a free copy of Vista for Business or Office 2007: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/free-windows-vista-to-us-residents/

By: Sai

Sai — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:29:43 +0000

Well, seems like there isn’t much about Vista goods for me since I don’t actually use much Microsoft on my PC. I’m contented, not to say very happy, with Win XP, and waiting for SP3 but that’s mainly it. I use OpenOffice along with Google’s for docs and spreadsheets. Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, del.icio.us, My Yahoo, GMail etc. I’ve turned down most of Microsofts applications and wouldn’t ever think of going back at it. I also think Vista is overhyped, both in the pro or cons department. I guess I’ll just try to have more patience and I’ll get me a mac someday, when I get the money.

By: Morten Brudvik

Morten Brudvik — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:06:09 +0000

I have managed to move most of my needs into the Browser thanks to Google for their great web apps. I use regularly Gmail, Rss reader (The best!),Docs & spreadsheet, Calendar (Really great!), and for bookmarking I use the Yahoo del.icio.us service. I have been a Windows user for more then 10 years, and it has often been a pain in the ass to keep things running. When they finally manage to release a new OS, it’s just a bubble with no really new features. And from what little experience I have with it, it will be more problematic to use then Windows XP.. So I am not taking the shit anymore. I have decided to go for Mac. and I have just ordred myself a Macbook. :) Down the street, in maybe 2-3 years I think Linux will be the new kid on the block. They are sooo near, but still have to trim the edges a bit to be popular by the average joe . Just my two cents for what it’s worth.

By: feartheseeds

feartheseeds — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:20:56 +0000

Doug, BestBuy Employee: “Hello, how may I serve you today?”
Nintey-Nine Percent Of Consumers: “I would like to purchase one of those com-puu-dors.”
Doug (who has a monster crush on Debbie, the redhead at cash one): “Yes sir, and would you like Windows Vista with that?”
99PcOfCons: “Duhr. I would like windows and a door thank you.”

Mike, Dell Employee Of The Year (who is sleeping with Debbie, the redhead from BestBuy): “Hey, check it out, another weenie wants to buy a PC with Vista. Hey the dumbass gave us all of his passwords and account numbers. Hey everybody, new iPods on this guy.”

Later On In The Gates Cave: “Hey check it out, we just bought Brazil by default.”

People will buy Vista because they don’t give a rats bee-hind about Firefox or critical apps, ASPs, ISPs, OS, RichText Editor or PowerPoint. Easily 80% of the features on any home computer go entirely unused during said computers lifespan. Porn, email and the occasional grainy video of a teenager blowing up some stuff he found in your backyard (“Sweet Christ, I think that was my frigging dog!”). That’s it. The rest is just a giant make-work project to keep geeks like us off the street.

Gabriel.

By: Paraglide Tandem

Paraglide Tandem — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:25:00 +0000

By: PanMan

PanMan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:02:43 +0000

I also use my OS mainly as a shell for my browser, but there are still a lot of program’s that I don’t have browser based yet. For example: A good text editor (for coding), a SSH shell, an FTP browser (altho I do use IE for this, sometimes), music and video player, photo management, and Google Docs isn’t as ‘good’ as Word is, yet (and word isn’t THAT good…). It’s the right time to as: I just ordered a new PC, so tomorrow, I’ll see what I will install.