Vista is the dinosaur that will become exctinct

[David]

Of course Vista will become extinct, just like Win 3.1, 95, 98. You don't
think we will be using Vista in 2012 do you? Microsoft will have released a
new OS by then, and at that time will probably be working on the OS after
that.

Prior to XP, Microsoft released a new OS every 3 years or so. It looks like
they are just reverting to that.

 

[Just.some.guy]

Your reading comprehension???
Not so much

Nah, it's fine...I saw strike one, and strike two, but you lost whatever
points you gained by your spelling critique. This is NOT English school
Sparky.

 

[Jim]

Nah, it's fine...I saw strike one, and strike two, but you lost whatever
points you gained by your spelling critique. This is NOT English school
Sparky.

It's called a JOKE, take the stick out of you arse and enjoy life.
And stop throwing the baby out with the bath water.

 

[XS11E]

tell that to all those people who need to buy new hardware,
upgrade their cpu, ram and hard disks or even buy whole new
computers just to use vista

tell that to all those people who need new printers and scanners
and other hardware because the old ones that worked very well
before cant work with vista

and tell that to all those people that learned all this vista
resource hunger and incompatibilities AFTER they spended all their
money to buy vista from the shelf.

So you want us to feel sorry for people too stupid to do their
homework, or are you just feeling sorry for yourself because you're one
of them?

Please do continue whining, I'll bet you were idiotic enough to get an
A.R.M. and are now whining to the government to bail you out of your
own foolishness....

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23005755-5014111,00.html

Something you might be interested in.

 

[Frank]

Frank wrote:




How would a turd like Frankie Boy, who doesn't understand computing today,
be able to wrap his injuried brain around the future of computing? The
future is server based running on virtual machines, with lowly client
computers accessing them for web services.

Cheers.

Don't give up that day job if you even have one cause you're a complete
failure at marketing...LOL!
You're actually pretty stupid aren't you 'nostop'.
Frank

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Hardware has always been driven by increasing demands of software. Been
around the computer world long?

Cheers.

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You need hardware first. Obviously, you haven't been around too long..

 

[Joe cann]

yeah stop throwing the pc out along with the OS, just get rid of vista and
you are fine!

 

[Joe cann]

This is the single most logical post I have seen here in a long time!

I have been saying the same things again and again. but dont expect the
dorks in here to understand.
they are vista boys aka fanboys

I saw a documentary recently that was about PEAK OIL and the problems which
this will bring.
But I am more optimistic. there are some alternative sources of energy out
there..

 

[Joe cann]

fantastic.. thanks for posting this

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23005755-5014111,00.html

Something you might be interested in.

 

[Just.some.guy]

It's called a JOKE, take the stick out of you arse and enjoy life.
And stop throwing the baby out with the bath water.

A joke...well then I apologize. My girlfriend's native language is not
English, she is still learning, and sometimes will make mistakes like that.
Some people have not been so kind about it, so I'm kind of sensitive.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

How would a turd like Frankie Boy, who doesn't understand computing today,
be able to wrap his injuried brain around the future of computing? The
future is server based running on virtual machines, with lowly client
computers accessing them for web services.

Cheers.

Before going to work, make sure to put on the Blue Vest so when you see the
customers coming into Wal-Mart, you can smile and say Hello!

 

[Bill Yanaire]

I think this about sums up your condition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_death

 

[KewlToyZ]

Strangely abstract...
Any PC architecture design change is still waiting for the technology to
standardize and become cost effective.
For truly lower energy costs, it will need to be overcame on several fronts
of technology:

Magnetic Resonant Memory - RAM no longer cycles energy, the instant on
instant off concept of an OS can finally make its debut much like sleep does
in Vista.
For this to successfully topple the current standard, it would likely need
an extravagant bus speed (4GHz??)
IBM had been doing considerable research on this for some time,
haven't heard any successes outside the lab at even reasonable manufacturing
costs yet.

Chip based data stores in general.
The OS would have to reside on a chip,
likely its own drive separated from where the programs themselves install.
So yes, more freaks come out and cry foul about having to buy and install a
chip for an OS instead of a disk...
Perhaps a more user friendly issue like a flash drive so updates can be
installed similar to a BIOS will cull their whining.

But wait, now you will really scream.
Microsoft can actually assemble a PC with its partners as the next
generation of XBox for not only a game platform, but a console PC?
Say it isn't so?
Actually adopting standard interface connections of a PC for a gaming
console that might actually have a shelf life??
Wouldn't that just make the wanna bee's at Apple totally stock up on diapers
=P

 

[btgavin]

You sparked a lively debate. Your conclusion is probably the way things
should be, if the world was truly smart about how it uses resources.
However, I think the computing industry (like other consumer products) will
be driven by marketing. People like stuff that is slick and cool and fun. I
don't know if Vista will make me any more productive than Windows 3.0, or
even DOS, but it's a whole lot more fun to play with. In the end, I think we
will end up with slick, cool, fun, and energy efficient.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

In fairness, the Vista Upgrade Advisor is publicly available to answer those
questions before they spended all their munnies. If there is misleading and
useless information to clarify in the Advisor, it'd be great to know what
those specifics areas of failure are, since specific failures are
potentially addressable, but general rumors are not.

 

[DarkSentinel]

In fairness, the Vista Upgrade Advisor is publicly available to answer
those questions before they spended all their munnies. If there is
misleading and useless information to clarify in the Advisor, it'd be
great to know what those specifics areas of failure are, since specific
failures are potentially addressable, but general rumors are not.

The thing here is though, even if Vista had come out 100% perfect the
smacktards would still whine about something.

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[zachd [MSFT]]

The thing here is though, even if Vista had come out 100% perfect the
smacktards would still whine about something.

Back when Thag invented fire, Trogdor started protesting that he strongly
preferred the frost-bitten lifestyle. Complaints are going to happen as
life changes, since change is unsettling. The question to me is if we're
able to mine those complaints and get useful data for improving whatever
area of the world we're talking about. If X is failing, how is it failing?

Or, to put it another way, if it didn't come in as a complaint but rather as
a suggestion: would you want more data to help figure out what the specifics
of the suggestion were? I realize not everybody is going to aim for being
constructive in their criticism, but if there's valuable data to potentially
be found, I'm all for trying to get at that. =)

Cheers,
-Zach

 

[DarkSentinel]

Back when Thag invented fire, Trogdor started protesting that he strongly
preferred the frost-bitten lifestyle. Complaints are going to happen as
life changes, since change is unsettling. The question to me is if we're
able to mine those complaints and get useful data for improving whatever
area of the world we're talking about. If X is failing, how is it
failing?

Or, to put it another way, if it didn't come in as a complaint but rather
as a suggestion: would you want more data to help figure out what the
specifics of the suggestion were? I realize not everybody is going to aim
for being constructive in their criticism, but if there's valuable data to
potentially be found, I'm all for trying to get at that. =)

I am too. If they genuinely wish to be helped, I will do what I can to help.
However, you have been in here long enough to know that the trolls don't
wish to be helped. They post only to disparage anything that does not agree
with their narrow world view, as exhibited by the title of the thread. I
look at it this way pretty much, if you want to act like a retard, you get
treated like one.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

*shrug*, yeah, but if it encourages random person x later to be helpful and
provide data that lets me close down 1000 crashes, that's a huge win to me.
I've seen other people ask the right questions that have helped me help
people - I like that good triage notions are catching on. =)

Most Linux advocacy documents I've seen point out that the persona you
project online is going to reflect strongly upon what you're trying to
promote. If people from any point of view get ugly/negative, that just
further hurts the reputation of that product group. If people's experience
with an actual Microsoft developer is that he gamely keeps trying to isolate
and solve issues - I don't think that's a bad experience for people. Am I
going to be able to fix everything? No. But if I get even a 10% fix rate
on the issues I look into - isn't that a huge win and bonus? (Again, that's
not Microsoft-centric: I regularly help other vendors fix their software
too. In some cases that's cross-platform, so users on OS Whatever also
benefit.)

I wouldn't work at Microsoft if I didn't think that I had a chance to fix
things and make things better. I certainly can't ban the trolls - even if
it saddens me that this is how they choose to live their life on this
planet - but I can make things better, and I'm going to keep doing that. =)

Cheers,
-Zach
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