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Tuesday Open Thread | 75 comments (75 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I don't know, but going by Ballmer's record with Vista and Windows Mobile, I'd invest in chair manufacturers.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:03:56 PM EST
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Remember Helen's law, every other Windows version is actually not horrible.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:16:56 PM EST
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As in alternate.
vista = dog
XP = usable (best windows)
ME = dog
98 vanilla = usable
95 = dog
Win3.1 = usable
win3.0 = dog
DOS 6.1 = usable
DOS 6 = dog
DOS 5 = usable (best dos)
DOS 4.0 = unusable dog, worst product ever
DOS 3.3 = usable
DOS 3.2 = dog

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:20:43 PM EST
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Absolutely agree.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:23:21 PM EST
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I'll go with you on XP, even if the interface looks like it was ripped out of a Playskool catalog, but I thought 3.1 and 98 were awful.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:24:56 PM EST
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Depends what you were comparing it with. Each was noticeably better than its predecessor and was more stable than its succesor.

Comparisons with apple don't count.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:37:01 PM EST
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Well, I take it back. Windows '98 was okay. Not great, but usable. 3.1, though, was completely nuts to me. I know Microsoft struggles with the whole "intuitive design" thing (being the company that demands you hit a button labeled "Start" to turn the machine off), but that one was pretty bad.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:43:20 PM EST
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You're right.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:25:40 PM EST
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Well my technical advisor who has actually tried it says that the beta does actually seem to run faster, which is a bit unbelievable, as the core architecture is meant to be available. and you'll have lots of extra diagnostic and debugging stuff lieing on top.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:22:25 PM EST
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Microsoft. Well.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:44:48 PM EST
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OMG - this deserves a troll rating... (4.00 / 4)

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:56:36 AM EST
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They shoot horses don't they? (4.00 / 2)

I was thinking more of mercy killing.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 11:21:01 AM EST
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How did Microsoft manage to survive the Vista fiasco?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:47:30 PM EST
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I think this comment is missing from This Diary

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 05:11:45 PM EST
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Tuesday Open Thread | 75 comments (75 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)