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Microsoft Picks Seinfeld To Push Vista Against Mac Ads - Yahoo! News

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Microsoft Picks Seinfeld To Push Vista Against Mac Ads - Yahoo! News
Many users of Vista have only complained, and Cherry said education should be part of the campaign at some level. If a parallel campaign taught vendors how to help consumers select the right PC to use Vista, he said, it could be a winner.
“I [...]

Windows Rant

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Sigh, I have had to test on Windows XP and Vista lately.  What a miserable experience.  How do Windows users live with the constant messages asking for permission, etc?  My guess is they turn them all off…  I wonder how much productivity increase would be had in the enterprise if people didn’t constantly have to [...]

Sigh — Windows Vista (part deux)

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Grant’s Grunts » Sigh — Windows Vista
More fun:
I launch the installer and the first thing it does is go out and get updates.  OK, that’s cool and makes sense.  No way that a CD can be kept fresh in the store.  Finally, I get everything installed, first thing it does: downloads updates.  OK, no big [...]

Sigh — Windows Vista

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Dang.  Had to buy a copy of Windows Vista today so I can test on it (don’t worry, I won’t develop on it).  The whole purchase makes me feel like a criminal, and I did everything right, what with all the anti-piracy “protections” and the phone home effects.
And then there is the whole question of [...]