__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Thursday 08 June 2006 07:06 \__
> On 2006-06-08, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> Vista gets out of PC sync
>>
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>>| Microsoft has dropped a feature from Windows Vista that would have
>>| allowed people running the new operating system to keep data
>>| synchronized among multiple PCs.
>>|
>>| The software maker said quality concerns were behind the decision to drop
>>| the feature, which allowed people to keep files up-to-date across
>>| multiple Vista machines.
>
> What?
>
> Are they afraid it might work or something? They never let kwalitee
> affect anything else they've done.
>
> Unless the goal /was/ poor product.
>
>>|
>>| "While PC-to-PC sync is a great feature that improves productivity
>>| and collaboration we don't have it at the quality level our
>>| customers demand," Microsoft said Wednesday in a statement.
>
> Another one that never really entered the equation before. But I doubt
> they really mean it anyway. They've used the slogan before and the
> results were what we saw happen already.
"...we don't have it at the quality level our customers demand," --Microsoft
Microsoft is being overly prudent here. The customers don't expect much. If
the darn thing can survive 8 hours of uptime, Vista will sell like cupcakes.
>> Judging by that last statement, maybe they should just call it quits and
>> abort Vista altogether.
>
> They can't now. Fester went to Wall Street to tell them the troubles
> the world sees at One Microsoft Way are a mirage. They're trying to
> tell investors that they've been wasting money on other ventures
> (shorting current products at the same time) for a good reason. No way
> could they get away with shipping nothing now.
>
> Maybe they can glue a Vista label on some old 3.11 floppies.
...But 3.11 has some severe TCP/IP bugs that can allow anyone on the network
to crash it (BSoD) remotely...
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