“Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that the reception for the company’s Windows Vista operating system has been ‘incredible,'” Reuters reports.
Reuters reports, “Gates spoke when asked to clarify last week’s comments by Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer that analysts’ forecasts for fiscal 2008 revenue for Vista were ‘overly aggressive.'”
Asked by Reuters if there was anything that would make Microsoft cautious about the outlook for Vista, Gates replied: “I don’t know what you mean. Vista’s had an incredible reception. The reviews have been fantastic. This is a big, big advance in the Windows platform. It’s the world’s most used piece of software…Overall, the reliability feedback has been well better than we expected,'” Reuters reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: Bill Gates is nuts, a liar, a joke, thinks it’s 1995, about to check into a darkened Vegas hotel room and grow his fingernails to absurd lengths, and/or using these definitions:
incredible
adjective
1 I find his story incredible UNBELIEVABLE, beyond belief, hard to believe, unconvincing, far-fetched, implausible, improbable, highly unlikely, dubious, doubtful; inconceivable, unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible; informal hard to swallow, cock-and-bull.
fantastic
adjective
3 fantastic manifestation STRANGE, weird, bizarre, peculiar, grotesque, deformed, misshapen, misproportioned, distorted, twisted, gnarled, mangled, mutilated; ugly, unsightly, monstrous, hideous, freakish; seeming more appropriate to a fairy tale than to reality or practical use.
For the record, Windows Vista’s “incredible” reception and “fantastic” reviews include:
The Register reviews Microsoft’s Windows Vista: ‘Don’t buy it’ – February 20, 2007
Forbes: ‘Windows Vista utterly unimaginative, internally discordant and woefully out of tune’ – February 09, 2007
Digit: Don’t buy Vista; Microsoft may be driving millions to stick with XP or move to Apple Mac – February 05, 2007
TIME Magazine: Microsoft’s Windows Vista ‘an embarassment to the good name of American innovation’ – February 02, 2007
Microsoft’s Windows Vista: Five years for a chrome-plated turd – January 30, 2007
Digit: ‘Microsoft’s Windows Vista may be the best reason yet to buy an Apple Mac’ – January 29, 2007
Pioneer Press: Windows Vista shows ‘Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much’ – January 29, 2007
Windows Vista disappoints, so get a Mac – January 29, 2007
CNET Reviews Windows Vista: Is that all? Clunky and not very intuitive vs. Mac OS X; warmed-over XP – January 24, 2007
Mossberg: Microsoft’s Windows Vista offers lesser imitations of Apple’s Mac OS X features – January 18, 2007
Windows Vista disappointment drives longtime ‘Microsoft apologist’ to Apple’s Mac OS X – January 17, 2007
InformationWeek Review: Apple’s Mac OS X shines in comparison with Microsoft’s Windows Vista – January 06, 2007
NY Times’ Pogue reviews Microsoft’s Windows Vista: ‘Looks, Locks, Lacks’ – December 14, 2006
Dave Winer: ‘Microsoft isn’t an innovator, and never was – they are always playing catch-up’ – December 01, 2006
Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard is 64-bit done right, unlike Microsoft’s Windows Vista kludge – August 14, 2006
Microsoft Windows Vista: If you can’t innovate… try to impersonate Apple’s Mac OS X – August 10, 2006
Analyst: Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard sets new bar, leaves Microsoft’s Vista in the dust – August 08, 2006
Microsoft botches another copy job: Windows Vista Flip3D vs. Apple Mac OS X Exposé – June 26, 2006
Windows Vista rips-off Mac OS X at great hardware cost (and Apple gains in the end) – June 13, 2006
Computerworld: Microsoft Windows Vista a distant second-best to Apple Mac OS X – June 02, 2006
Related articles:
Windows Vista’s DRM is bad news – February 14, 2007
Computerworld: Windows expert dumps Windows, switches to Apple’s Mac OS X – February 08, 2007
Windows sufferer spends six hours trying to ‘upgrade’ to Vista, says: ‘I should’ve bought a Mac’ – February 07, 2007
Bill Gates unhinged with Apple envy; Microsoft on path to become high profile casualty – February 06, 2007
Bill Gates has lost his mind: calls Apple liars, copiers; slams Mac OS X security vs. Windows – February 02, 2007
Analyst: Microsoft’s Windows Vista could be an opportunity for Apple – January 26, 2007
15-year Windows vet tries Apple Mac: ‘My God! This is amazing!’ – December 04, 2006
Harvard Medical School CIO picks Mac OS X over Linux and Windows – November 30, 2006
Top Windows developer dumps Microsoft’s ‘pile of crap’ for Apple’s Mac OS X – September 12, 2006
$399 for Windows Vista Ultimate?! (Hint: Get a Mac) – August 29, 2006
Defending Windows over Mac a sign of mental illness – December 20, 2003
Hold your horses Bill. Your purty Vista is up against some fierce competition.
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The new Bill Gates reality field..
Zune AND Vista have been outstanding in their reception.
It’s all some ghastly spelling mistake.
Gates actually said “incredulous”
Delusional or liar? Probably both.
Wouldn’t software specifically written for worldwide financial transactions be more widely used? Or for millions of embedded or network devices? Just asking.
I tried Vista Ultimate for the first time last night, and I must say it’s pretty nice, visually. I really like its solid feel, the visual effects when opening and closing windows, etc. Mac OS X feels dated next to it.
It really won’t matter what anyone thinks until those geniuses Boeing777, sputnik and the egregious Zune Tang come here and tell all of us.
So he throws all his money at charity so everyone will think he’s a nice guy, then he turns around and damages the goodwill he builds up when he pulls this garbage.
Bill Gates: World’s Biggest Liar.
coolfactor, even if your observation is true (which it clearly isn’t), how many people are gonna buy Vista Ultimate?
At noon today, Bill and Stevie B. will be marching down 157th Avenue buck naked testifying proudly to the world how splendid and magnificent they are in their golden, masterful and kingly robes.
coolfactor,
I played with Vista Ultimate a few weeks ago. I have to disagree. I thought the search feature was good (of course, already done in OS X), and the thumbnails view was good as well (again, already done in OS X).
As far as the look of Vista in general, it looks like a glossed up video game from the 80s. Like it was designed by a high school Photoshop class.
He’s working off the Liberals tactics:
If you repeat a lie often enough, many people will accept it’s true.
In order to be the richest man in the world, you unfortuantely have to make enemies somewhere. It’s the nature of capitalism.
In order to continue to be the richest man on earth, Bill Gates is simply touting his product. Although a lie, he’s doing what he’s gotta do for not only him but his investors as well.
I am not a fan of the man, but let’s be a little honest with ourselves here. The man is worth what?…$50 billion?
WOW!
Surgery was performed successfully, but unfortunately patient expired on the table.
The reception to Vista ‘s been incredible, too bad no one wants to buy it.
NEXT!
Those darn Indian pirates.
eGates and Ballmer ned to get together and decide which story to feed the press.
He’s working off the Conservatives tactics:
If you repeat a lie often enough, many people will accept it’s true.
Let’s get a few things straight. The “big liars” of history have not touted conservative principles (freedom being chief among them). FDR? Not conservative. Stalin? Not conservative. Pol Pot? Not conservative. Lenin, Marx, Engels, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Chavez, Mao, Hitler, and on and on.
Conservatives err and are embarassed when they are caught in a lie. Liberals (let’s take…oh…Teddy Kennedy, Murtha, Biden, Hillary, Bill, John Kerry, Edwards, Al Franken, Michael Moore) don’t seem to be bothered by spreading untruths. In fact, they profit by it.
This goes back to the singular reality that liberals don’t have much use for eternal standards anymore, if they ever did. Look at the “Christian Left” sometime, and see how they’ve embraced every violent misreading of the Scripture from liberation theology to Gaia-worship. Clearly, those who set the tone have abandoned their own values; that politicos should do so is only a matter of course.
And the cincher? Where are the feminists on Muslim mistreatment of women? They are as silent as they were on Bill Clinton’s abuse of women. This tells you everything you need to know about the American left — the lie and the truth are both useful.
This sounds like a Pirates of Silicon Valley moment.
Yeah Bill, just keep on telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.
Back to the real world…I had a friend who wanted to buy a new notebook computer this past weekend. He went with the intention of buying one with Windows Vista Ultimate installed. After looking around CompUSA at the few models that even offered the Ultimate version of Vista preloaded, he ended up wandering over to the Apple section of the store. And in the end, he ended up taking home a black MacBook instead, and is just going to use his old copy of XP via Boot Camp for when he must use Windows.
So yeah, the reception to Vista has certainly been incredible all right.
@ BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots,
Chirp.
Mr. Gates….Mr. Gates?
Its time for your medication…
The difference in what each said has a reason:
Ballmer HAD to ay that because he was speaking as an official of the company and would get in trouble with SEC if he gave false or misleading information to analysts in his statements.
On the other hand, Bill can offer his “opinion” of the situation and characterize it however he wants to. Of course, the lies are prety obvious now, but what do you expect from someone trying to protect his monetray investment.
With all the problems drawn out in the press about Longhorn and now Vista, Bill realizes that this misstep could very well cost Microsoft its preeminent position over the coming years. Consumers and business are getting smarter in this day of instant global communication (missed the internet too, didn’t you Bill?) and the alternatives like MacOS X and Linux are offering opportunities to the monopolistic/greedy ways that seemed unavoidable before.
You made your own bed Bill, and while it was nice for awhile, now you have to sleep in it.
Yeah, The reception was so good, a guy returned his new Vista PC cause he couldn’t get anything to work and went to Staples and bought Windows XP. I reached him too late to get him into a Mac, but Bill Gates would be accurate in saying the reception has been incredible. Who else returns the latest and greatest to buy old tech. That is incredible so factually Bill is right!
@Crickets.
I agree that MDN isn’t the best place for a political discussion, but where were you when “youngenough” said:
“He’s working off the Conservatives tactics:
If you repeat a lie often enough, many people will accept it’s true.”
Hypocrite.
@Busting,
Wow… so you mean to tell me that Liberals and Fascists and Despots have the market cornered on being liars, eh? I’m sure glad you cleared that up.
Come, now. Lying is a HUMAN condition, not a political bias. Politicians lie. They ALL lie. Just like all humans lie. Fabricating, stretching, spinning, whatever you want to call it.
To suggest that conservatives (unlike liberals) are “embarrassed” when caught “in error” is laughable, to boot. Politicians these days are NEVER embarrassed, and never admit when they are in error.
Just ask Jack Abramoff, Scooter Libby, Mark Foley, or Rush Limbaugh. Because they were all so forthcoming and ashamed of themselves when caught in fraud/tax evasion, obstruction of justice and perjury (i.e. LYING), being a pedophile, or illegally abusing prescription drugs, respectively.
All went about their behavior for extended periods, and refused to admit any fault when confronted, until thrust into the spotlight of public scrutiny and forced to accept some level of responsibility.
And by the way, I’m a conservative, so I’m not picking on you and your Republican views – just trying to point out what I see as a completely specious argument. You can argue philosophical differences and methodological differences, but to argue that one party is “fundamentally more honest” than the other is just nonsense.
Why do some of you ALWYAS have to view the world through Liberal-Conservative glasses. Sometimes a computer program is just that, a computer program. Not some liberal, conservative, secret plot to take over the American economy, or mindset or religion or blah blah
Grow up or go home