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Old 21st Sep 2008, 12:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Dan Lyons: A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com

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Last year I was meeting with the CEO of a PC company who offered to give me a demo of his company's gorgeous new top-of- the-line notebook, a machine that cost several thousand dollars and came loaded with Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system. He flipped open the laptop, pressed the power button, and … nothing. We waited. And waited. It was excruciating. He tried control-alt-delete. He tried holding down the power button. Finally he removed the battery and snapped it back into place. The machine started up—slowly—while the CEO sat there fuming. Speaking in a carefully measured tone, he acknowledged that he had been less than pleased with Vista, and confided that he'd visited Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to express this displeasure in person. I would not have wanted to be across the table from him at that meeting.
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Why advertise at all, when almost everyone who buys a PC today will get Vista on it, whether they like it or not?
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Yet another challenge for Microsoft comes from PC makers themselves, who are sending mixed messages about Vista. HP insists it is committed to Vista, but also touts the fact that its engineers have created little Linux-based software modules so that HP customers can perform basic tasks, like checking e-mail and playing DVDs, without booting Vista at all. HP calls this "innovating on top of Vista," though "sidestepping" might be a more accurate description.
It's okay to bash vista for its flaws. but my initial impression after reading the first paragraph was the author blamed vista because the machine didnt power up. And this is an article posted on Newsweek. Ermmmm...speechless
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Old 21st Sep 2008, 06:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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If it requires battery to be taken out, it sounds like hardware problem to me.
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Old 22nd Sep 2008, 05:33 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Yeah, maybe the battery wasn't even attached properly. Happened to me once.
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At a time when most people are in some way or another unhappy with Micro$oft, it's just too easy to blame your products shortcomings on them. Although I dislike the monopolisation of the PC industry, and Vista in general, it's still just wrong to blame them for everything.
Seriously, if you went to turn on your notebook and nothing happened, wouldn't the power connection/battery be the first thing you'd check?

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Haha.. I agree.
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This really reminds me of someone

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Blame first, think later. hehe

anyway, i searched around, and found this.

Farewell, Gates et al. - Forbes.com

wow! I really don't know what to say! he writes for forbes? Newsweek!!??? shuurelly it's not a mistake?
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well...most CEO's are not IT-savvy...
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