Archive for the ‘Vista’ Category

Sarcasm

Saw this on my way to work. I assume they are being sarcastic. Filed under ‘humor’.

Posted by rdas7 on February 12th, 2007

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Nobody Cares About Vista

Almost a year ago, in a post called “Who Cares About Vista?” I pointed out that the numerous delays, lackluster betas and general lack of competitiveness of Microsoft was putting Apple in a very strong position to, basically, rule the world.
And in that post, I mentioned that the one thing Apple could do was to […]

Posted by rdas7 on February 1st, 2007

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How Many Clicks Does It Take To Switch Off?

Joel writes about the myriad choices in Vista just to turn it off in the “Start” (ho ho) menu. Moishe Lettvin, a developer on the team who developed this one menu item, goes on to describe a room full of managers and three week intervals between when code was written and when it showed up […]

Posted by rdas7 on November 27th, 2006

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The Happiest Day

Today is a happy day. I finally googled the instructions for how to uninstall IE7 beta 2 from my PC at work.
For those who don’t know, IE7 beta is roughly as useful as Netscape Navigator 1.0. Most things that work ok in IE6 are now broken in IE7. “It’s a beta” I hear you cry. […]

Posted by rdas7 on June 21st, 2006

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Who cares about Vista?

Something occurred to me after reading this entry from mini-microsoft, entitled “Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!”, where this snippet caught my attention:
“I was upset at missing the back-to-school market. Now we’re missing the holiday sales market. [snip] With the convergence of high-tech media, this holiday season would have been an explosive nodal point to […]

Posted by rdas7 on April 8th, 2006

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