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tomfoolery wrote:

One of my friends tried installing the Express Upgrade disc on his 2 m/o PC. It refused to upgrade from XP MCE, so he battoned down the hatches and went for the fresh install. Now his PC won't POST. He contacted his manufacturer, and they're sending out a guy on Tuesday to replace the mobo. And yes, this was a Vista ready PC!

WTF!!? I'd have assploded if installing Vista smurfed my motherboard. I can't even see how that could happen, but the manufacturer apparently implied it wasn't uncommon. Weird.

tF

what does it mean that the computer won't post?

POST: Basically gets past hardware checks.

Yeah, that was when it was still Blacksheep. Apple took that as what was coming out and basically Tiger was going to be the one to compete with it. Apple's implemented all that stuff, MS just sat there and chopped it all.

Heh, Bill Gates never ceases to give me a good laugh everyone once and a while.

Jasoco wrote:

macanoid wrote:

I really don't understand how they can be proud of Vista. Obviously it tries to mimic Mac OS X - something that can't really be denied. However, when you look at a video of what they really had in mind for Longhorn, Vista is even more of a failure. The demo of Longhorn 2003 is really very, very impressive!!!

You see, what happened? I mean seriously. That's some good looking stuff right there. The kind of friendly animation Apple would put in their OS. Yet when Apple puts it in, they actually put it in and keep it in. Why did MS take it out? Or was that all just thrown together from scratch to represent what they wanted the OS to look like, then realized they couldn't actually implement it?

I mean, some of that stuff was really cool to watch. The animation of the photos dropping down then flying into their slots. The way the sidebar appears from top to bottom. I dunno. Microsoft takes concepts and treats them as such. Concepts. Apple takes concepts and applies them to the real world. There is our difference.

I call this behavior "Next version FUD": to prevent people from abandoning your product, you promise them the moon with the next version. When the next version is actually released and is lacking many of the promised features, you tell the dissenters that the next version will have them.

Or you can just support really good games on your platform. That seems to have worked very well.

ScifiterX wrote:

Except right now they don't even seem to have that going for them as many games are having compatibility issues with Vista.

so as Vista increases market share, we may see more games being run on the Mac OS instead of windows.
all because BillyBoy broke em.

I think bill is trying to create his own Reality Distortion Field.

I think my favorite was this one:

newsweek wrote:

How about the implication that you need surgery to upgrade?
Well, certainly we've done a better job letting you upgrade on the hardware than our competitors have done. You can choose to buy a new machine, or you can choose to do an upgrade. And I don't know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you're really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There's not even the slightest shred of truth to it.

I love that he calls Apple a bunch of liars when nothing in any of their commercials is even close to dishonest, yet a couple of questions before this he flat out lied about OS X. I think he is losing it.

Frank

knobtwirler wrote:

Gates should buy a mac and see how it works. At least then when the next new idea for Windows comes along he'll know where it came from. Nobody wants to hear about some olden days before anybody who uses computers was born and who copied who. That journalist/interviewer sucked.

The sad part is that this particular journalist has written for MacWorld if I remember correctly.

Frank

frankly wrote:

knobtwirler wrote:

Gates should buy a mac and see how it works. At least then when the next new idea for Windows comes along he'll know where it came from. Nobody wants to hear about some olden days before anybody who uses computers was born and who copied who. That journalist/interviewer sucked.

The sad part is that this particular journalist has written for MacWorld if I remember correctly.

Frank

Peter Cohen seems to think he was okay with Bill making a fool of himself. (Scroll down a bit)

And Apple or teh Steve Jobs has never uttered a lie about the Mac platform?

"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. - Bill Gates, February 02, 2007,Newsweek"

Well Bill that has not been done to a Mac, but on your dare it has been done to a Vista OS already.

"Quite disturbing were recent revelations that Microsoft's own Live OneCare antivirus program, tailored specifically for Vista, is unable to block many well-known computer viruses. Another antivirus package from McAfee also fails to do the job. This fulfills predictions made in early 2006 by antivirus firm Symantec (maker of Norton AntiVirus) that, because of Microsoft's failure to provide ways for antivirus programmers to fully integrate their products with Vista, many antivirus programs would have a hard time protecting Vista users. I guess that includes Microsoft, as well."

more here.