“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.
Full article here.
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
If reception means vast amounts of ridicule and derision, then yes.
WOW! His reality distortion field needs new batteries.
MDN word: for, as in What did he say that for?
Missed it by that much
Bill Gates must really have to wash himself well after lying through his teeth with all this gobbledegook…
“Incredible” goes both ways, Bill.
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I too had an incredible reception….to the gastro virus. It was met with explosive diarrhea and emesis.
When just 10% of the XP user goes Vista .. it is a lot !
Denial is, in fact, a river in Redmond.
-c
Can’t these interviewers call him on his lies? When he says that the reception has been incredible can’t they at least say “Really? Because Time magazine (or insert whichever review) says it’s terrible”
I can’t believe this guy is getting away with so many bold face lies…even after his own CEO says that sales forecasts were “aggressive” and the slow sales are due to pirates.
“It’s the world’s most used piece of software…”
Um, so if an, ahem, working girl, shall we say, is the most used working girl, does that make her the BEST?! No, but it does most likely make her the most virus-riddled…kinda like Windows!!
WOW, Bill is starting to believe his own lies…
MW: Planning, as this poor reception of VISTA was not expected in the planning…
“This is a big, big advance in the Windows platform…….”
Enough said. If he lies, it’s bad, if he tells the the truth, bad news either.
I hate these typos…it should have read….It’s the world’s most useless piece of software
Sure sounds like Yin is not talking to Yang anymore.
Bill is having a mid-life crisis. We shouldn’t mock!
We need a pinch of salt….
Gates saying Vista has had an incredible reception is like Bush saying we’re winning the war in Iraq. Both hyperbole and like the latter the former will eventually have to admit he’s wrong.
MW “language”
The guy lost it and that’s why he’s on his way out.
Hey Billy boy …
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Pass around some of .. whatever yer smokin’ … I’m sure there are others here
who would like some !!
Someone needs to get off their ass and call this guy out, PUBLICLY, but no one seems to have the guts.
mudflapper,
Didn’t MDN just do that?
‘Bill, I’d like you to meet Britney Spears. Britney, Bill….’
What is the matter with you people? This has always worked before. I’ve been lying about Windows and how fantastic it is since the late 80’s. It worked then, it will work now. I’m Bill Gates, damnit!
Bill seems to be delusional. I think he’s been watching to many episodes of Fantasy Island.
“The Iraqi forces have retaken the Baghdad airport from U.S. troops.” Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It is a beautiful, beautiful day in Seattle today. Take the day off, Bill. You’ve done enough for my AAPL stock. =)
-c
@ TowerTone
Maybe he’ll shave his head, too.
-c
It’s the worlds most used piece of software? Even if it were the best thing ever, if that were remotely true it would be an outstangin achievement so quick after its release.
Hold your horses Bill. Your purty Vista is up against some fierce competition.
http://www.baronbob.com/poopooplatter.htm
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
Of course none of you will be able to figure out the secret acronym that ALWYAS stands for heh heh….
@ twilightmoon@mac.com,
Where were you when “oldenough” said:
“He’s working off the Liberals tactics:
If you repeat a lie often enough, many people will accept it’s true.”
Now STFU!
Chirp.
You said it. I’m all for discussion, but anyone that DEFINES themselves by their political views is sad, sad, sad.
It doesn’t matter how nice Vista ‘looks.’ It doesn’t work for crap, and that’s the proof in the pudding. So Microsoft has succeeded in copying the ‘look and feel’ of the Mac again. If history repeats itself we can look forward to actual functionality following suit in about ten years or so (and by then, we’ll all be using Apple’s touch and gesture based navigation anyway). ‘iPhone, bitch!’
MW: sense, as in start making some
i predict that pretty soon words will come out of Gates’ mouth o the effect of “Well, what was I going to do? Talk it down?”
@ Buster
Sure, Just sometimes it LOOKS like it
Gates’ level of telling the most absurd lies in public with mock passion shows that he could publicly eat sh*t with a smile, lick his lips afterwards and give a contented sigh. Amazing.
I waded into Vista for a neighbor who bought a new HP laptop last weekend AGAINST my recommendation that he get a Mac. It was hellish trying to get it to work with the wireless router he’d bought, and then only Firefox would connect consistently; Explorer kept saying he wasn’t connected to the network. To add HP insult to Microsoft’s injury, the ALT key broke off in the first weekend he had it. He finally decided yesterday to return it and get a Mac.
@Buster, BustingTheSkulls, etc.
I, too, get tired of people who try to push their agendas here.
MRI brain research done on people who are zealots about some cause or another shows that thinking about those causes actually activates the pleasure centers of the brain. Those of us (yes, it can happen to me, too) who get all riled up and indignant about some issue or another should bear that in mind.
What’s Vista?
…thinking about those causes actually activates the pleasure centers of the brain….
You mean like a moment of revelation? It happens a surprising number of times:
– Dang! Why didn’t I buy a Mac before? It’s brilliant!
– God loves me….
– What a magnificent universe! There is no God! No devil, no soul, no spirits nor ghosts, no magic….
MW: high
To me, the most telling remark Gates made was this: “Overall, the reliability feedback has been well better than we expected,”. That says to me that Microsoft knew it was shipping a half-assed product. Like they always do.
@Dantés.
To me, it says that either ol Billy boy ‘as bin secretly livin in east London for a while or e’ watches a lot of “The Bill”, a Pommy cop show set in London …”Overall, the reliability feedback has been
<b>well</b better than we expected,” know wot i mean, like … sorted … nice bit of kit that … aint it.
Bill “…This is a big, big advance in the Windows platform.”
Please ….. someone, get me a medic for me …. I can’t breathe …. laughing so much as to what this implies.
Bill has quietly retreated into his “happy place” of cheerful elves and prancing unicorns. When he will return to the real world, no one knows.
Translation: “I can’t believe that people are actually buying this turd. I never thought that anything OS as buggy, overrated, and overpriced as Vista would sell as well as it has. It is truly amazing. Never under estimate the power of conventionality.”
Bill “…This is a big, big advance in the Windows platform.”
See through Windows. Yeah baby.
Recently heard on Bill Gates’ Zune:
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said:
“Feed your head! Feed your head!”
Yeaah! Crazy sheeit, man! Groovy!
All of you mischievous Mac dimwits have created the following lies, which you now believe to be true:
• Vista’s reception sucks very much like a brown Zune.
• Vista sucks very much like a brown Zune.
• A Brown Zune, or any other Zune, sucks very much like an iPod on my birthday.
• Macs are based on powerful UNIX code.
So that you don’t need to consult Wikipedia, the iPod can be on Mr. Jobs’ birthday instead and it would be just as bad. Macs are currently based on Play-Doh; 10.5 “Leopard” – no, “Leotard” – will steal XP’s foundation when it debuts in October 2009. 2010. Whatever.
In addition to rescuing the real Zune Tang from Ulaanbaatar, I myself am hunting down the pro-Apple numbskull that impersonated me. I don’t tell people that I have lied 24/7 (even though I have) because my minions would think that I had a comedy routine to do tomorrow. Either that, or that someone wanted to be sued for imitating me.
To set things straight, MDN, Vista is incredible, meaning
2 (an incredible feat of engineering) MAGNIFICIENT, wonderful, marvelous, spectacular, remarkable, phenomenal, prodigious, breathtaking, extraordinary, amazing, stunning, astounding, astonishing, awe-inspiring, formidable, impressive, supreme, great, awesome, superhuman; informal – fantastic, terrific, tremendous, stupendous, jaw-dropping, out of this world; literary – wondrous.
Vista is also fantastic, meaning:
1 (a fantastic car) MARVELOUS, wonderful, sensational, outstanding, superb, super, excellent, first-rate, first-class, dazzling, out of this world, breathtaking; informal – great, terrific, fabulous, ace, magic, cool, awesome, brilliant; antonym – ordinary.
Mac OS X 10.4 “Tigger” is incredibly. Stupid, as in:
antonym Vista.
“Muck” is actually a cleaner name and would sell to smarter people. “Muck” is also what the hackers in Russia wear to gain intelligence when around each other and stupidity when around Windows Me.
Your whining. Our wealth. Microsoft.
Sorry, late with my meds, I was.
Methinks Billy is the new “Baghdad Bob”….
To the second “Billy Boy”:
You’re just acting mentally ill. Not only did you come in twenty minutes late, but you didn’t back up Vista. You didn’t even back up Muckintosh or Crapapple. To distinguish yourself from the brilliant likeness of myself, call yourself “Gatesy Boy” or something like that. At least we know you use Muckintosh Tigger at home instead of the worldwide bestseller, Vista.
To former Muck users who don’t have enough brains to work out Vista (yet), here’s a handy FAQ guide to answer all your petty questions:
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Question: Why isn’t Vista running on my computer?
Answer: Because you didn’t follow the simple yet powerful installation directions, you monstrous imp.
Question: Why is Vista running on my computer?
Answer: Congratulations! Go to msn.com and redeem your “I Have Working Brains” e-certificate by typing the username Tigger and the password Leotard into their respective boxes. Well done!
Question: Does Microsoft offer tech support for iPod and iTunes compatibility?
Answer: Yes, in fact we do. Our tech support is so simple that it can be posted on MacDailyNews.com:
Welcome to the social. Get an 80 GB Zune. 83 GB. Whatever.
Question: What’s a Zune?
Answer (to the question as well as “Crickets”): Chirp.
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In other news, India’s attack on Russia (now-Communist like Cupertino) was extremely successful because Mr. Jobs – er, the Devil – held a “vital strategic placement meeting” to discuss Muckintosh OS X 10.5 “Leotard” and the move to make. By the way, the Devil has recently made his move in our friendly little game of chess, and it lost him the game. And a rook.
Only five Russian hackers were killed in the feud, however, particularly because there were only five Russians trying to hack Windows (to no avail). My dollar-an-hour programmers in India are back to work today, but I owe them all milkshakes for the heroic deeds that they accomplished with flying colors. Then again, they accomplish everything with flying colors.
Your whining. Our wealth. Microsoft.