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Re: Here's How Microsoft Vista really was shit by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/22/2011, 11:33am PDT
laudablepuss wrote:

Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) wrote:

When Microsoft introduced Vista, it was near-unanimously declared a cluster-fuckup. So Microsoft tried to put frosting on its load of pig shit by running ads telling people how shiny Vista is. The piece of garbage wasn't a problem because it looked bad, it was a problem because it was a piece of shit to begin with and except for the fact Microsoft forced it down people's throats, nobody wanted it.
This is a terrible misrepresentation of Vista and the ad campaign to un-convince people that it was faulty in some fashion. It was absolutely not a piece of garbage, and the ads had people using Vista and loving it -- it was presented to them as something new with a different name, but it was the unmodified OS. Most of these people had heard idiots like yourself screeching about it and were convinced beforehand that it was awful. I'd take Vista over XP every day of the week.

Vista was a fuckup, which I know personally. I used it, I saw how it worked, and it was a piece of shit. One simple example of lots of problems it had. I want to delete a file from the desktop or folder display level, in XP I right-click, then select delete, and I'll get a confirmation request. If I want to avoid that I can always drag the file to the recycling bin icon. In Vista, first after I right click, it asks to confirm I want to do this. After doing an approval, then to actually do the delete I'm asked to give administrator permission to do so. Four fucking clicks to do the exact same thing that took two in XP. Plus everything grounds to a halt while this happens. Plus Vista won't run in lesser hardware. Plus XP runs legacy software people have that crashes in Vista. I wasn't "convinced beforehand" I was convinced from actual use that Vista was unmitigated garbage.

And despite all this security crap Vista still doesn't do anything to stop malware and viruses.
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A BBC World Service story about the 1988 New Coke fuckup by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 9:00am PDT NEW
    How is it a fuckup when the end result is vastly increased sales? NT by Entropy Stew 10/15/2011, 9:46am PDT NEW
        OH GOD PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME THE ANSWER TO THIS NT by Reed Hastings 10/15/2011, 10:03am PDT NEW
        It ended up that way, but originally Coca-Cola got huge, nasty opposition NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 3:39pm PDT NEW
        A lot of people were extremely upset over what coke did NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 3:40pm PDT NEW
        It only got better after Coke ended up throwing in the towel and NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 3:41pm PDT NEW
        bringing back the original formula. This was not something they expected. NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 3:42pm PDT NEW
            What the fuck, this isn't Twitter, asshole. NT by Reed Hastings 10/15/2011, 3:49pm PDT NEW
            This was how they introduced high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar NT by Roop 10/15/2011, 3:50pm PDT NEW
            How is it a fuckup when the end result is vastly increased sales? NT by Entropy Stew 10/15/2011, 7:17pm PDT NEW
                Here's How by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/18/2011, 2:18pm PDT NEW
                    Also, the New Coke marketing executive was shunned out of the company after that NT by (For being TOO brilliant? asks reta 10/18/2011, 3:48pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Here's How by laudablepuss 10/18/2011, 5:07pm PDT NEW
                        Re: Here's How Microsoft Vista really was shit by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/22/2011, 11:33am PDT NEW
                            you can the UAC stuff off NT by Mysterio 10/22/2011, 12:04pm PDT NEW
                            But... but... gadgets man it has gadgets, you can drag em places and shit NT by Roop 10/22/2011, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                                You're a lot better at mocking peoples posts through comics than posting replies NT by Casual Observer 10/23/2011, 9:33am PDT NEW
                                    WAIT but in Windows 7, you can drag em anywhere, not just shitty places ANYwhere NT by Roop 10/23/2011, 7:11pm PDT NEW
                            The blind survey speaks for itself by laudablepuss 10/23/2011, 4:41am PDT NEW
                                it sounds like he doesn't have admin rights on his own machine NT by guessing 10/23/2011, 11:37am PDT NEW
 
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