Frank said:
Tell us why the NY Times should be considered experts on Vista?
Frank
What a moron. You never read the article, did you? The experts the
article is talking about that know are *Microsoft* employees, doofus.
From the article you didn't read:
"Here’s one story of a Vista upgrade early last year that did not go
well. Jon, let’s call him, (bear with me — I’ll reveal his full identity
later) upgrades two XP machines to Vista. Then he discovers that his
printer, regular scanner and film scanner lack Vista drivers. He has to
stick with XP on one machine just so he can continue to use the peripherals.
Did Jon simply have bad luck? Apparently not. When another person,
Steven, hears about Jon’s woes, he says drivers are missing in every
category — “this is the same across the whole ecosystem.”
Then there’s Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring “Windows
Vista Capable” logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista
in all of its glory, as well as favorite Microsoft programs like Movie
Maker. His report: “I personally got burned.” His new laptop — logo or
no logo — lacks the necessary graphics chip and can run neither his
favorite video-editing software nor anything but a hobbled version of
Vista. “I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine,” he says.
It turns out that Mike is clearly not a naïf. He’s Mike Nash, a
Microsoft vice president who oversees Windows product management. And
Jon, who is dismayed to learn that the drivers he needs don’t exist?
That’s Jon A. Shirley, a Microsoft board member and former president and
chief operating officer. And Steven, who reports that missing drivers
are anything but exceptional, is in a good position to know: he’s Steven
Sinofsky, the company’s senior vice president responsible for Windows."
Alias
