Hahahaha. They think it's a failure to communicate Vista's value. Like people haven't heard that Microsloth has a great new operating system, as if that's going to change the fact that Vista is the suck. Microsloth is so out of touch.

Russell went on to defend Vista, specifically its ability to "run on a very wide-ranging set of systems from the minimally capable to the incredibly capable," he said. "Apple doesn't do that."

See, that's not something people care about. Apple knows this. Microsoft inherently doesn't understand the consumer. You can only focus on a strength if it's one people care about.

That happened to my parents computer! It had 512MB of RAM, the Vista minimum. They installed Vista and guess what happened. Unbelievably slow and it froze over and over. They just decided to get a new computer and transfer everything instead of doing a clean install of XP (who knows how that would've gone.) M$ owes my parents $100 or more!

In order for Microsoft to even get close to Apple is to:

1. Get rid of Billmer.
2. Admit that Unix IS a better O/S and redo Windows in Unix.
3. Give developers one year to get there code working with the 'new Windows'.
4. Get rid of other mid 1980 executives and get some "fresh minds" in there.
5. Redo the desktop layout. It worked for the 1980s and 90s, but no more.
6. Put out a new O/S every year or every other with new features.
7. INNOVATE, INNOVATE, INNOVATE products that people actually WANT.

Why get rid of Billmer? Simple, everytime he opens his mouth to the media it shows how he (and Microsoft as a whole) are out of touch with their users and the industry as a whole. This is the same dweeb that did not know that one could run Windows on a Mac!!!

Dan

@Dan
Well spoken indeed. I actually got excited imagining Windows competing with OSX and Linux. You know that feeling when you try a new operating system or a new phone for the first time and how excited that feels no matter what minor kinks you run into. Microsoft on a Unix core would be something worth looking at. Oh yeah...and ditch the Balmer. He's the cancer that is slowly killing Microsloth.

"Russell went on to defend Vista, specifically its ability to "run on a very wide-ranging set of systems from the minimally capable to the incredibly capable," he said. "Apple doesn't do that"

really?

MacPro 2x 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series, up to 32GB of main memory, etc = OS X

iPhone, 620 MHz ARM 1176,[4] underclocked to 412 MHz, 128 MB DRAM = OS X !

they do it just fine. just because they opt to control the quality of the final product and experience by not allowing crappy 3rd party hardware manufacturers to license the OS on anything they put together for the lowest cost, doesn't mean they can't run on low end hardware.

come on apple freaks.
In 2001 iBooks and PowerBooks and iMacs sold months before tge introduction of mac os x 10.0 showed a miserble performance on the new system. Even prior machines take quartz difficult until3 years later.

Ms envy? Of course! The ones that show envy seems to be apple. They got a decent operating system by 2008, but they only concern is to bash the 95% of the market with advertising.

Ms don't needs to smash a 5% market advertising how bad is me.com or how can time machine wipe your harddisk without notice or an attacker can setup a backdoor through the png image library when you visiting a website with safari. You know why microsoft don't do this ?
Cause they have ethics.
Cause they don't want that people seems like a stereotype.

Ms can put a vista capable logo on 10 of 10000 products and fool someone that don't know what integrated graphics is but
Apple can put a bluetooth icon on 10000000 of iphones and restrict their pairing only for a headset.