Microsoft is a pain in my behind. God knows, I have my qualms with them, but they have such control over the desktop (just ask Netscape) – it’s terrible. In fact, did anyone else notice the installation of their default icons in their links toolbar during recent updates? Yep, adds itself without ASKING right into your links. I think that shouldn’t be allowed!!! What is the clarity and distinction of what is mine and what is theirs? IT’S MINE, I BOUGHT IT, I DELETED THE CRAP! LET ME DECIDE IF I WANT YOUR CRAP IN MY PC!
Well, speaking of Crap inside a PC – have you heard about the “Vista” version of Windows slated for an August 3 beta release for developers and IT departments, followed with a beta after July of 2006 for consumers, then I’m sure it will be on sale for the holiday season of 2006, and it’s not Longhorn – it’s Vista. Remember WindowsME as a stop gap after Win98SE and before Win2K? Well, I bet you Vista is the same thing. The funny part is that the promotional video on their website is sitting in the /winme/ directory of their server! I KNEW I WAS RIGHT!
They release bad products, everyone has to buy them, they have a license which says it doesn’t even have to work once you have “cracked the seal.” C’mon America. Can’t we hold a company who makes like 80% margins on everything they produce to release a product which is 100% secure, 100% solid and doesn’t require updates every freaking day?
I have already spoken my piece on this over at the TigerDirectBlog, and reprinted it here for your convenience. I should re-write an uncensored version, but I won’t go there……
Remember WindowsME? Yeah, some call it the worst and shortest lived version of Windows ever released. I speculate that Windows ‘Vista’ is nothing more than a smoke screen, ala WindowsME, to appease the corporate shareholders and impatient customers to release something before ‘Longhorn’ ever gets here.
I mean, how much can they release – they have cut so much out of the Lornhorn roadmap release that it is half the version it was intended to be. So, Vista may be the release name, it seems, which will allow it to not be compared against Longhorn – i mean it’s a different version, right? lol
The ads have begun, Microsoft Vista is being touted as “Clear, Confident, Connected: Bringing clarity to your world.” I’m thinking this is a way to wrap a whole release on DirectX 10. Maybe not. This announcement is available in the video over at Microsoft. The funny part is that the promotional video on their website is sitting in the /winme/ directory of their server!
Microsoft said that the first beta of Vista would be out by August 3, 2005. Now, a second, broader beta release for consumers will come out in the second half of NEXT year (read after July 2006). A server version will also be slated for shipment in 2007. This is crazy stuff, seemingly designed for a banging 2006 holiday season (same thing happened with WindowsME release).
Read the full story over at News.com.
Lonny,
I kept reading how they were going to “revolutionize” file systems, etc. and now see that never came to pass. For now, it seems, files will still be in folders, etc. If they have removed what was the biggest innovation touted for the new operating system, then what is left? A new frontier for hackers, viruses and crapware to get in? A whole new set of vulnerabilities that are more difficult to track down and close?
Joe in Nebraska