Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista' 756
amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."
You dare refuse to pay? (Score:2, Funny)
OK... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Flaimbait this is (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about this aspect? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think "churning" is the quite the right word, maybe "lurching" would be a better description.
Re:OK... (Score:5, Funny)
Thurrot Proposing big changes? (Score:5, Funny)
Even calling this thing Windows Mail is an insult. The Windows name should only be added to first rate products.
But what would they call their operating system, then?
Re:I'm jaded and even I actually like Vista (Score:5, Funny)
I would guess hundreds of thousands considering the number of huge mufflers and space wings I see glued onto primer gray Honda's..
Re:Ahead of them on that one (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently ackthpt thinks BSODs (blue screens of death) are a good thing. Seriously how can you consider yourself intelligent if you think XP is worse than Win98? Oh, nevermind I get it: you are a Mac user.
Re:Thurrot Proposing big changes? (Score:3, Funny)
According (allegedly) to the Latvians, "Chicken" [yahoo.com].
(If the boycott succeeds, "Microsoft Turkey" might be more appropriate.)
Boycott Windows 2000 a useless update to OS/2 (Score:5, Funny)
That is until IBM killed it.
Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? (Score:5, Funny)
It did take a while, because I kept trying to chmod the files. All I kept getting back was - 'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So I tried reading the man pages on chmod. Guess what happened??
Re:Confessions of an Ex-M$ Junkie (Score:2, Funny)
Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? (Score:5, Funny)
That's because the Windows command for 'chmod' is 'del', and the equivalent of 'man chmod' is 'format c:'.
Have fun!
Re:OK... (Score:2, Funny)
No, but can you tell me how I might configure it so that it does?
Re:OK... (Score:2, Funny)
>> the majority or viruses and spyware XP doesn't crash
>> very often."
> Couldn't have said it better myself.
I can:
"... as long as you have a user smart enough to avoid
the majority of viruses and spyware XP doesn't crash
very often."
Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, that's a pretty good argument. I had no idea my point of view was so nuanced. Thanks for bringing this up, instead of creating a strawman or something, which you could have done. If more people communicated in such a dignified and respectful manner, we could accomplish so much more as a people.
Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? (Score:2, Funny)
No it won't.
You don't believe me? Ok, try this: 1) don't install grub. 2) don't install hotplug. 3) don't install module-init-tools. 4) don't install mount, mkfs, fsck. 5) don't install any 'init'.
Let's see your "just an OS kernel" do something now.
If "will keep on working" means sit there and do nothing, then I guess you are totally correct.