<![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> Cougars suck.

dangster

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> @Swifter: Fair enough. I won't blame you. I hope you've read [www.cs.auckland.ac.nz] .
I sure feel sorry for the video driver authors for having to follow such convoluted instruction sets.

Adam Rock

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> If Vista was the product of yet another man thinking and acting with the wrong head, it'd all make perfect sense.

Patricia2

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> @michaellamb: @sinical: Apple supports a hardware platform it totally controls, unlike Microsoft which must support exponentially greater combinations from thousands of different vendors.

Microsoft has sold more copies of Vista than all versions of OS X combined and did so about the second month of release. And, the largest and most successful software vendor for the OS X platform is, guess who, Microsoft.

Just sayin'.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> @Adam Rock: Dude, Microsoft is like an arms merchant. They don't care whether you use DRM or not. They make it available to content producers so those producers will release content on the Windows platform, which benefits Microsoft.

Microsoft doesn't force you to buy or use DRM content. If you don't want content with DRM, don't buy any. I certainly don't. Sooner or later the content producers will realize that they can sell a lot more without it.

You might as well be pissed off at the Colt Arms company for the war in Iraq. It's just stupid. Grow up.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> I won't say that developing an OS is easy, but the market ultimately decides the fate of any product, and the market has said that Vista sucks. Period. My next desktop machine will be a Mac, and I can't believe I've actually reached that point.

sinical

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> @swifter, apple does it more regularly and with 1/10th the problems MSFT OS does. Besides who cares that much any more about the OS. It's all about the browser baby.

michaellamb

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> For starters, I wouldn't let the MPAA dictate a f**ing line of code to me.

Adam Rock

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> As someone who was on the Vista team in COSD (Core Operating Systems Division), I can tell you with some authority that nobody gave a damn about who Brian Valentine was pining for. He was always funny in the WIM meetings and cared about people, but ultimately left because Vista was late, over budget, and Microsoft wasn't fun anymore.

Losing Brian Valentine killed nobody's morale and those of us who worked on Vista are all proud of the work we did and the product we shipped. If building and releasing an operating system is so damn easy, why don't you make one?

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Is an Italian hottie the reason why Vista sucks?]]> One thing I especially loathe about high tech is the cult of individualism. Specifically, the attribution of divine qualities to some management goof. There were probably a thousand people working on Vista, and because one guy moved on to other things, it's crap? It's a wonder that Apollo 11 landed on the moon without LBJ in charge.

googoobaby

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