"One question might be, and I'll be as direct as I can be about this, what is .Net? Unlike Windows, where you could say it's a product, it sits in one place, it's got a nice little box. In some senses, it's a very good question."
-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ,at a Microsoft .Net briefing day in July
"We don't have the user-centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence -- presence is the most trivial notion of context."
-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates ,on the same topic at the same briefing
"Our biggest problem was policing the use of .Net. Things like .Net Enterprise Servers. That's a great example of where the confusion came from, because it looked like we were slapping .Net on a bunch of random products."
-Charles Fitzgerald, general manager of Microsoft's platform strategy group, in August on ZDNet News
"It's about connecting people to people, people to information, businesses to businesses, businesses to information, and so on. That is the benefit."
-Steve Ballmer, trying again, in an October interview with News.com
Re: Vista is OK and will be no.1. Just have patience!
lol not everyone that realizes that vista is windows ME version 2 is a "hater". Try realistic:
"In one year or two all of them will be running Vista."
Think so huh? Even business have been wary of spending money to upgrade to it. Not everyone has the money or incentive to upgrade to a quad core to run all the eye candy in vista. Most people want basis functionality--office & word, web browser email. And I guarantee you most people don't care for drm at all.
"you need it because of the new technologies such as directx10 and forth
and pc's will be faster and faster and Vista will boost performance overtime"
You don't need vista for new technologies at all. What new technologies? DX10? DX is nothing more than an api for graphics cards so windows programmers can more easily get at the metal--it doesn't add more features than the graphics card already itself is capable of providing it merely makes it easier to tap the power. And DX10 is fully capable of being deployed for XP. In case you weren't paying attention MS created numerous versions of DX from win95 to DX 9 on XP. Has absolutely NOTHING to do with vista at all. Do you think everyone is naive? You obviously got that machine for DX10 and gaming and are a power user--you should know better since power users often want the most out of their hardware investment--you won't get the most return using VISTA at this time, thats for damn sure, and SP1 is unlikely to fix the bulk of the issues. XP worked much better than vista did before id even had SP1, esp. for games. That b/c they had released SP's for win2k and the transition was a lot easier--not so this time.
"On my Q6600 with 4 GB ram and raid 0 runs flawlessly... Even Windows XP can't match Vista on that machine... considering for 4 GB you must install xp x64 which is way worst than Vista x64"
Yeah of course with a quad core and 4GB of ram, it's going to work better. And that's just BS--I call BS. Windows XP it outperformed by the bloated drm ridden vista? How do you figure since the OS inherrently is calling on the CPU's to do more work than with XP? Perhaps your XP installation was hosed or you're just on crack. And most people aren't going to upgrade to the latest and greatest just to use vista. A lot of people bought computers just 1-2 years ago and aren't going to upgrade again just so vista doesn't bog down. As for XP64--hardly a fair comparison since MS hasn't spent the time pushing XP64 and support for it like they have for vista. They've bypassed it altogether in favor of vista. Vista should never have been released and they should have pushed XP64 along with improvements to security and DX10.
"Just wait and see. I'm pretty sure!"
I'm pretty sure too--that VISTA is windows ME version 2 rofl.
"XP was heated before."
Not like vista are you kidding? What are you 10 years old or something? XP was much more compatible when it was first released than vista is. I had numerous games and apps work right from win98/se even. You're gone dude...get a clue
"Vista is the best Microsoft OS (till Windows 7 will came out)"
Black XP is superior to Vista. Windows 7? lol when will that be, the year 2010 or 2012?