Vista

Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer

Bwah-ha-ha! It's a news story! It's not The Onion, or some other parody site; it's a Seattle Post Intelligencer blog, and the story is real.

There's a photo as evidence that Vista actually will print, complete with caption: "Charles Walling prints from his Windows Vista PC."

You can't make this stuff up. : )

Sweet mother of Jebus. This is apparently what it takes to get the beleagured Vista sales team energized about meeting quota.

In their defense, "Why not create a decent product instead of wasting time on cheesy videos?" isn't a totally apt criticism, as the sales team doesn't create the product; they can only try to flog what's been extruded from the product dev section.

One thing in life I would not want to be is a Vista sales manager, and this video just made that go double.

Holy bejesus. I thought my Anything but Speechless: 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista was a pretty thorough record of Vista's failure. This Slashdot page goes me one better. It's got plenty of info and links, which I've got too, but also puts it all into a chronological ordering. Like watching train wreck footage, frame by painful frame.

Vista Failure Log

I doff my cap to my better. Well done, sir(s)!

"Why Vista? Good Question." That's the premise of an eWEEK survey to enterprises. And the answer is... buried in a horrible "slideshow" format forcing would-be readers to wade through flickering screen after screen, for what turns out to be barely a large paragraph's worth of info.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Vista/Why-Vista-Good-Question/

For you, fair readers, I bring the slides' text in its entirety. Here it is:
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Available for your viewing: Dozens of emails by Microsoft execs, lamenting the sorry state of Vista performance and compatibility.

After its release to the paying consumer.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1746211&from=rss

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/132891.asp

All humor aside, I have sympathy for the folks that bought into Vista! Time for a switch.

Whoa, I've been away from The Complex for quite a while. And out of touch, too – some passing canoe keeps cutting my trans-creek modem line. (Four times now, campers – that's enough!)

Despite the hubbub over MS and Yahoo! (and here's all you need to know about that), I have to add some quick miscellaneous notes to Anything but Speechless: 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista, seeing as – well, people just keep talking about the product. (Question for Ballmer: Was "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless" actually a veiled plea for everyone to stop talking about Vista?)
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