Vista: more bad press
[has any Microsoft product ever gotten reviews as bad as Vista has?]
http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0312/038.html?partner=yahoomag
Dim Vista Stephen Manes 03.12.07
Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50
million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring
than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: “The ‘Wow’ Starts
Now,” and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from
Apple’s Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there’s no wow
here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and
at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Washington and rip
somebody’s liver out.
Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of patched-up
old ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult supervision
running things. If I can find plenty of problems in a matter of
hours, why can’t Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )? Most
likely answer: It did–and it doesn’t care.
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