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Microsoft says, "Windows is officially broken."

Amazing

Amazing, thank you God for the Macintosh.

....Mr. Allchin and his deputies would also face protests from programmers who complained he was trying to impose bureaucracy and rob Microsoft of its creativity.
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Since when has MS had creativity?

The goal is to force Microsoft to be more nimble in producing and delivering software. The result: Microsoft has thrown out years of computer code in Longhorn and started out with a fresh base. It has now set up computers to reject bug-laden code automatically. The new Vista will be simple. Bells and whistles will hopefully come later - including WinFS.
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Who's computers and what OS are they running?

Microsoft's holy grail is a system that cranks out a new, generally bug-free version of basic Windows every few years....
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Bug free? As in basic operating system and security?

Mr. Srivastava had his team draw up a map of how Windows' pieces fit together. It was 8 feet tall and 11 feet wide and looked like a haphazard train map with hundreds of tracks crisscrossing each other.
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Wish I could of seen that map. Probably like that TV commercial with the guy explaining the "Matrix".

It must be hell to work at MS, everyday going to work knowing that everything you do is inferior to the competition. Thats life, there are winners and there are losers.
 
Thsi has PR stink all over it. You think half the windows using populace will ever hear Ballmer's words? No. And thus it's just the techies that hear it and most of them wills hrug it off anyway.

Any publicity is good publicity, as they say.
 
mcadam said:
- I'm sorry, but I can't help hoping they'll make a disastrous piece of ****, which will be the drop that makes the 95% of the worlds computer users finally loose their temper, thus opening up the market, not just for apple and linux, but for innovation in general.

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I know I don't speak for all, or even most, Mac users. But I for one think that the world will be better off if Microsoft can get it together. Apple will be forced to be better, and that helps both Mac and Windows users. I like Apple and dislike MS because the former makes products that work and the latter does not. I'm not saying I'll love MS someday because that seems really unlikely to happen, but the millions of people who are forced to use Windows deserve a better OS. The mess that is Windows costs the world billions in broken software and lost time.

I personally don't care how much market share Apple has and don't root for Microsoft to fail to improve Apple's standing. If the rest of the PC world can't reject MS on its merits already, then OS quality is clearly not the determining factor anyway.
 
iPoster said:
So the Nano screen issue has been all over the news and internet, but not a peep about this story until I go to an Apple board...figures! :eek:
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Because they story is actually about something that happened almost a year and a half ago. The "starting over" thing already happened and the current Windows Vista is the result of it. This isn't something that is happening now.
 
you know we will be hearing the exact same thing from Microsoft again.

"Vista was broken it was a mistake, now introducing Pueblo"
 
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