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[News] [Rival] Windows Vista Makes a Yahoo Top 10 List (of Worst Products)

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Vista Makes a Yahoo Top 10 List (of Worst Products)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:05:02 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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10 Worst Tech Products of 2007

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| Windows Vista: Where to begin? Vista arrived in stores months late, forced 
| untold thousands of users to upgrade their hardware, made mincemeat of 
| software and drivers that worked perfectly well in XP, ended up lacking many 
| of the bold-faced features we'd been promised, and came saddled with new and 
| annoying set of video DRM schemes. At least Vista now boasts an option for 
| downgrading back to XP.     
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/9908

Quote for the day:

"I don’t understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy
everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise."

                                --Jim Allchin


Related:

The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007

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| #1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
| 
| Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? 
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html


Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech products of all
time

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| Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive. 
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9823042-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report 

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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
| 
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125


Longhorn Server Comes When?

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| But there are increasing signs Microsoft won't make its date.
| 
| Windows Vista is good example of how the process works. Microsoft 
| makes subtle announcements that point to eventual delay.Then the 
| bomb drops. In November 2005, Microsoft canceled its scheduled 
| Vista CTP (Community Technology Preview) and stopped talking 
| about Beta 2 as, well, Beta 2. Microsoft's excuse: The Vista 
| development team had received so much feedback, Microsoft had 
| to throttle back test builds. Huh? Four months later, Microsoft 
| said that Vista would miss holiday 2006. 
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/longhorn_server_comes_when.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop?

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| If you buy-off on the theory that the world seems to be heading in the 
| opposite direction that Microsoft wants to lead it, then you can’t help but 
| wonder what the long term prospects for an offering like Windows Home Server 
| are. Not good, if you ask me.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=791

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