Microsoft Windows Vista Review
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| User Account Control
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| This in and of itself is great. A great feature pulled straight
| from the folks in the Linux camp. For me, it is a nagging monkey on
| my back. If you are a basic Windows user -- good for you, use UAC
| and love it. For me it has been turned off.
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| [...]
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| Flip 3D
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| This is another feature barrowed from Linux. Although Microsoft has
| done a great job implementing this, original it is not. It is a nice
| update from Alt-Tab of old.
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http://www.synergymx.com/page.php?Title=Microsoft_Windows_Vista_Review/
Accurate it is not, but pretty funny nonetheless.
Related:
A history of Microsoft Windows - the inside story exposed
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| 2004: (...)
| THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try
| harder!"
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| 2005: (...)
| "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Well, throw it away
| and use the server version then, that seems all right. Look, they
| won't know the difference, drop the database stuff, nobody remembers
| what we said in 1995 now! That was ten years ago! "Apple has what?
| 3D acceleration? So, we have DirectX. What, in the desktop? Really?
| What, even Stallman's beardie-weirdies have it? Oh hell. Right, you
| lot, make it look like this!"
|
| 2006: Windows Vista
| THE MANAGEMENT: "Look, if we trickle it out to those mugs, I mean,
| valued customers who've already paid, we can say we released it this
| year and it'll buy us some more time..."
|
| 2007: No, really Windows Vista, honest
| MARKETING DEPT: "Never mind the features, look at it! Isn't it shiny?
| Yes! Pretty!"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37962
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