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Chad Harris
Yo Mike Brannigan--
BTW anyone wanting to reach Mr. Brannigan can do so at
(e-mail address removed)
Good to see you slumming in here. Again I can count the number of softies
that have been in the pubic groups on the fingers of one hand once or
twice--Darrell Gorter, Jill Zoeller and that's about it. Corey Snow and
Nick White once when their names were invoked.
Jill's blog is excellent but neither she nor anyone else has lifted a finger
to put comprehensive articles on Technet or MSDN or any other Vista
sites--including the offbeat urls from MSFT that few people find.
MSDN and Technet blogs and Radio 9 are a very promising phenom for
communication. It's a shame that Rob Scoble is no longer with MSFT in one
sense, but promising that he has moved on--I haven't seen anyone taking his
place and filling those very large shoes at MSFT yet. His blog will always
live on. There's always Mini for some slices of MSFT culture:
minimsft.blogspot.com
I would love to see you Mr. Brannigan address a couple issues--boy would I
like to have a conversation with you on them. I also invite you and your
homeboys and girls to take a particular Vista challenge with me.
MSFT in the form of one OEM VP Scotty DI aka Scott Di Valerio has arm
twisted OEM named partners (300 of 'em Mike) to not include OS on media when
your customers pay hard earned cash for a new box from them. Instead MSFT
wants to ship the very profitable pre-loaded OS via OEM named partners
without any viable competent means to recover a broken Vista or XP with the
most capable tool--the entire OS code on media.
This is in part mirrored by the MSFT report last quarter of a nearly 20%
(19%) increase in profit from OEM sales of hardware with the preinstalled OS
and or Office on it (that's be XP at the time and Office 2003 Systems) and a
20% plummeting of retail software profits. MSFT's major cash cows have been
the Windows OS and Office, although they finally after years of foot
dragging have recognized Jo Anne Bradford's push to market web advertising
because Google has been kicking MSFT's butt in profits in that venue all
over the playing field.
I'd like to challenge you personally and anyone you want to choose at
Redmond up through Allchin and Gates to go into a room and take your spiffy
laptop and we'll break your Vista or your XP if you like--let's break both.
I'll break mine and I want a Vista DVD but you can have an OEM piece of crap
recovery disc or recovery parititon and lets repeat this scores of itmes and
see who wins as to recovering the OS.
Why was there such a global systemic tin ear as to many many components of
Vista that TBTs spelled out for various members of the Redmond Vista teams
that were ignored repeatedly?
Why were so many promising features left on the cutting room floor that had
been proposed and promised for Vista?
Why is there such a significant lack of efficacy in your crash cart for
Vista PM Desmond Lee's team's Win RE's Startup Repair compared with the
success rate of repairing Win XP with a Repair Install or Inplace Upgrade as
it's called in the MSKBs--provided--and this is a big if because it's rare
for about 800 million of your OEM customers of Win XP on the planet now and
will be equally rare for Vista customers to have a genuine OS media shipped
with their new computer after the expenditure of many hard earned bucks?
Why is your PSS so horrendous for Win XP, Office, and now Vista? Why is
your cheap Convergys outsourcing it to Indans who know so little about
fixing Office and XP and Vista and who are largely unintelligible in English
and best characterized as "minimum waged butts in seats"?
Why hasn't Device Manger been fixed so it can distinguish between a corrupt
driver and an intatc healthy one? Isn't 11 years enough time? It wasn't
fixed in Vista either. Team members associated with devices and drivers
confirmed this in Beta chats.
CH
BTW anyone wanting to reach Mr. Brannigan can do so at
(e-mail address removed)
Good to see you slumming in here. Again I can count the number of softies
that have been in the pubic groups on the fingers of one hand once or
twice--Darrell Gorter, Jill Zoeller and that's about it. Corey Snow and
Nick White once when their names were invoked.
Jill's blog is excellent but neither she nor anyone else has lifted a finger
to put comprehensive articles on Technet or MSDN or any other Vista
sites--including the offbeat urls from MSFT that few people find.
MSDN and Technet blogs and Radio 9 are a very promising phenom for
communication. It's a shame that Rob Scoble is no longer with MSFT in one
sense, but promising that he has moved on--I haven't seen anyone taking his
place and filling those very large shoes at MSFT yet. His blog will always
live on. There's always Mini for some slices of MSFT culture:
minimsft.blogspot.com
I would love to see you Mr. Brannigan address a couple issues--boy would I
like to have a conversation with you on them. I also invite you and your
homeboys and girls to take a particular Vista challenge with me.
MSFT in the form of one OEM VP Scotty DI aka Scott Di Valerio has arm
twisted OEM named partners (300 of 'em Mike) to not include OS on media when
your customers pay hard earned cash for a new box from them. Instead MSFT
wants to ship the very profitable pre-loaded OS via OEM named partners
without any viable competent means to recover a broken Vista or XP with the
most capable tool--the entire OS code on media.
This is in part mirrored by the MSFT report last quarter of a nearly 20%
(19%) increase in profit from OEM sales of hardware with the preinstalled OS
and or Office on it (that's be XP at the time and Office 2003 Systems) and a
20% plummeting of retail software profits. MSFT's major cash cows have been
the Windows OS and Office, although they finally after years of foot
dragging have recognized Jo Anne Bradford's push to market web advertising
because Google has been kicking MSFT's butt in profits in that venue all
over the playing field.
I'd like to challenge you personally and anyone you want to choose at
Redmond up through Allchin and Gates to go into a room and take your spiffy
laptop and we'll break your Vista or your XP if you like--let's break both.
I'll break mine and I want a Vista DVD but you can have an OEM piece of crap
recovery disc or recovery parititon and lets repeat this scores of itmes and
see who wins as to recovering the OS.
Why was there such a global systemic tin ear as to many many components of
Vista that TBTs spelled out for various members of the Redmond Vista teams
that were ignored repeatedly?
Why were so many promising features left on the cutting room floor that had
been proposed and promised for Vista?
Why is there such a significant lack of efficacy in your crash cart for
Vista PM Desmond Lee's team's Win RE's Startup Repair compared with the
success rate of repairing Win XP with a Repair Install or Inplace Upgrade as
it's called in the MSKBs--provided--and this is a big if because it's rare
for about 800 million of your OEM customers of Win XP on the planet now and
will be equally rare for Vista customers to have a genuine OS media shipped
with their new computer after the expenditure of many hard earned bucks?
Why is your PSS so horrendous for Win XP, Office, and now Vista? Why is
your cheap Convergys outsourcing it to Indans who know so little about
fixing Office and XP and Vista and who are largely unintelligible in English
and best characterized as "minimum waged butts in seats"?
Why hasn't Device Manger been fixed so it can distinguish between a corrupt
driver and an intatc healthy one? Isn't 11 years enough time? It wasn't
fixed in Vista either. Team members associated with devices and drivers
confirmed this in Beta chats.
CH