Comments on: Microsoft’s Vista Mea-Sorta-Culpa

By: mea sorta culpa « Popular News Guide

mea sorta culpa « Popular News Guide — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:45:46 +0000

[...] Listen in to Rush's mea sorta culpa. As the kids nowadays say…Rush Limbaugh, EPIC FAIL! Microsoft’s Vista Mea-Sorta-Culpa, Technologizer 24 Sep 2007. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is sorry, sort of, for kind of saying that Democrats who [...]

By: Windows 7

Windows 7 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:35:09 +0000

I’m surprised that MS actually spend that much money in the Vista campaign considering that Windows 7 was about to be released a year later.

By: Microsoft’s Stupid Vista Trick: Windows Mojave. - Rizq Technology - News @your.line

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:38:31 +0000

[...] long ago regarding new operating systems. As veteran technology journalist Harry McCracken just pointed out in his blog, Vista will get better. Eventually. Historically, this has been the case with new operating systems [...]

By: Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment: Fooled Ya, PC Users! | Technologizer

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:00:30 +0000

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» 300 millones para salvar a Vista — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:29:58 +0000

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By: Avocado876

Avocado876 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:21:19 +0000

Well, Mac was up (mid 90s), then PCs were up (late 90s), then things evened out (early 2000s), and now Mac has a bit of an edge merely because Vista was probably prematurely launched. I feel that this misses the point, though. The point, to me, is, I didn't know that PC Guy was into nude hang-gliding: http://theavocadopapers.typepad.com/avocadoblog/2008/07/different-think.html

By: David

David — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:03:13 +0000

You know, I agree that Windows does a lot of things really well; I still use a PC with XP Pro on it, and I find a lot of value in it. But I agree Harry, trying to sell me on Vista by telling me I’m ignorant is not the best approach. And I will say this, regarding “–”In sleep mode, Windows Vista draws about as much power as a common nightlight”;” – that’s a load of crap.

I bought a Vista Vaio from Costco about 1 1/2 years ago. I would leave it charging over night, check my email in the morning, and then put it in sleep mode (sleep, not hibernate). By the time I got to work an hour later, my battery was down 25%. That computer was what pushed me to Mac, and I love my MacBook (though as I said, I still find value in my XP desktop.)

I wish they’d give up the ghost and move on to Windows 7.

By: Not a good start, Microsoft. « Tech Bits and Bytes

Not a good start, Microsoft. « Tech Bits and Bytes — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:42:58 +0000

[...] McCracken at Technologizer has a good read on this, and seems to follow my thinking. For one thing, comparing people who [...]

By: JazzMan

JazzMan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:21:30 +0000

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the ad Ed and you are writing about is not part of the $300 million Vista ad campaign and is no way related. Given that the “ad” links to outdated information I don’t think this could be a kickoff to a $300 million campaign. With all due respect, I think you and Ed made a mountain out of a mole hill.

By: Stu Venable

Stu Venable — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:47:33 +0000

From my reading and listening, Microsoft’s impending Vista campaign is FOLLOWING a wave of regret from many tech journalists.

I remember hearing several tech reporters declare that Visa was “worse than Windows ME.” The tech news industry spent months beating the OS into the ground.

And journalists reporting on other industries joined in like lemmings. Soon the refrain “Vista sucks” was universally sung throughout the media.

Recently, I’m hearing them say, “Vista is not THAT bad.” I’m hearing them wonder why (sometimes with a little derision) people are choosing to downgrade their new computers to XP.

Why the change? I think (at least some in) the tech media are feeling a little regret. It was a big game of dogpile, and everybody joined in. It was the cool thing to do. One may not be experiencing problems with Visa first-hand, but, hey, somebody was have issues somewhere, so they all felt justified to join in the bashing.

Did Microsoft have some screw ups? Certainly. And some big ones.

But having installed every Windows operating system since 3.1, I had fewer issues with Vista than I did with several others.