Comments on: Still crazy after all these years

By: Ron Gustavson

Ron Gustavson — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:31:01 +0000

Wait till you see your first nag screen–”It seems your copy of Windows isn’t genuine”–while booting. On a brand new top of the line HP Pavilion, that ought to get your blood flowing. [I saw my first last night on a customer's PC.] I’ve come across a couple instances where XP Pro on Dell or HP boxes validate as volume licenses and updates are then unavailable through normal windows update. Add to the fact that they usually stiff the consumer on recovery CDs for most “home” machines….(!) (Well you can call Dell and they’ll eventually break down and send you one.)

By: mdubinko

mdubinko — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:40:38 +0000

I haven’t heard a single thing that makes me believe Vista will be better. Some of the UI stuff I’ve seen around security warnings is terrifying. (And I thought SP2 warning me to turn on automatic updates once per boot was annoying)

It seems to me there are no benevolent dictators left at Microsoft. Too many committees and review boards.

Anyway, I got SP2 up. Third time’s the charm. -m

By: M. David Peterson

M. David Peterson — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:13:19 +0000

>> At what point does Microsoft throw the “rewrite from scratch” swich?

In fact, if not mistaken, the entire reason Windows XP *IS* still the OS on the shelf at your local CompUSA is that they reached a point in 2004 in which they both realized and were brave enough to decide “we need to start from scratch if we want to accomplish the goals we have set forth.”

If nothing else, credit for making the right decision should be given. We’ll see if the “right decision” was in fact just that.

I think it will… but we’ll wait and see before I comment further ;)