“You’ve really done it this time,” Brett writes in an open letter to Microsoft Corp. posted to the Pseudomarkting blog.
“And I am leaving and never speaking to you again,” Brett writes. “It’s not that I want to dislike you. I was loyal to you for so long. I stuck with you through thick and thin. From DOS 5.0 through XP.”
MacDailyNews Take: Poor bastage. We tried Windows once… ONCE!
Brett continues, “But this new operating system is the last straw… You’d think at least someone (other than your PR people) would find something to like about a piece of software that took an industry leader five years and a gazillion dollars to develop. But I’ve yet to hear anyone say ‘Wow!’ about it.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, come on, we’ve heard plenty of “Wows” — all of them preceding “this sucks.”
Brett continues, “Most people say it’s a just a naggy, inferior imitation of Mac OS X… I had this epiphany when I tried out my friend’s Macintosh with OS X. I realized how much grief you’d put me through: the constant crashes whenever I tried to run more than three applications, the endless required reboots, and the vicious malware attacks that I wasted many precious hours wrangling with. And then having to pay extra for third party security and virus programs – because you couldn’t keep a handle on things…”
“The secret is out, Microsoft. The reputation that you can’t be trusted to deliver reliable software is getting around fast,” Brett writes. “Hasta la Vista!”
Full letter here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: For Windows-only users via Google News or elsewhere: Cut your losses. Get a Mac.
Hi Jordan! What are you doing right now?
Hi Jordan! What are you doing right now?
Hi Jordan! What are you doing right now?
And Jordan didn’t say Wow either.
Guess even MS spiff can’t make people say it…
Brett is like a lot of people that get fed up with Windows with one exception—he has the opportunity to try the Mac.
The majority of Windows users that try the Mac really like it.
Sadly, there are people that think that Windows is the be all and end all, many of them IT and corporate types. They love to gush about Vista one minute, then bitch about for ten.
I think it’s so funny to see all these types come into the store with their iPod problems looking over our Macs in awe of OS X.
Wait until they see Leopard!
Hey “Tired of Retards”. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Doesn’t matter to me whether someone has had a good or terrible experience with Vista or XP. Name calling/belittling someone is grade-school stuff whether your a Mac or Windows user. Pretty childish. Sheesh. Grow up!
All that matters to me is my computer works. Apple doesn’t disappoint. Innovative, functional and stylish products have become their trademark.
Looking forward to Leopard in October. The recently released Leopard images are the type of “Wow” I expect to see in a computer’s GUI.
@Jordan
Typical MS fanboy trying to justify their dull, pathetic existence.
Maybe you should try Macs first and really compare the computing experience with your second-rate copy cat, uninnovative, buggy, overpriced, unstable OS (a carry-over technology from the 90s,really) before you start commenting. It really makes you look stupid and out of touch.
A lot of your previous co-fanboys have tried the Mac experience and I’m sure they’re laughing at you now.
What a loser. Everybody says ‘Wow’ after they install Vista. All the Mac to PC switchers I know think it’s light years ahead of whatever toy OS is on a MAC. The problems with the MAC OS are well known and documented. The IT guys I work with cite the numerous issues with proprietary MACs all the time. It’s all I need to know.
Besides, I don’t know anyone who can’t get Vista up and running the first time. It just works. You Apple lemmings have no idea. Aren’t you tired of the SCSI conflicts? How do you get anything done when are always zapping the PRAM and rebuilding the desktop? And the malware for MACs. Thank goodness I never got a MAC. I just don’t have time for all the hassle.
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“I upgraded from xp to vista 3 months ago… Love it… Works like a charm.” —PC Guy
Let’s hear it for a happy Microsoft customer! One out of ten million is better than nothing!
A pc friend of mine had a nightmare …he looked down to see he was just a torso and a head …he was being eaten by a monstor called Vista ..an abomination ..an offspring of beast and man. In his terror he noticed a distant light. It came closer. It was a man ..a being of light …a Mac user. The being of light Mac user pulled open the lapels of his coat ..there OSX was modelling the scientific and socio-economic aspects of anthropogenic changes to the atmosphere while in the background iTunes was burning a cd and some Japanese acupuncturist in an iChat window was telling the pc guy he was going to be alright. Vista was awed ..he was so awed that he froze up and turned blue. The being of light Mac user smiled and helped the pc guy find peace on earth.
@ Kevin,
Too bad for your friend who bought the pc instead of a Mac…I have used Linux, Windows, and OS X. As a computer scientist…I believe the OS X offers the most value and is the most fun OS to work on.
For everyone who thinks that PCs are less expensive than Macs…have them see this link.
http://www.systemshootouts.org/
Hasta la Vista!
I like that, I think I’ll get a couple of posters made saying that and string them alongside my big SUV and tour Redmond.
Then on the back I’ll have another with a big Apple logo and below it saying “I love this company!”
Then I’ll have some bumberstickers that say “No Monkeyboys”
The M$ owned cops of Redmond will probablly find some obscure law that forbids it, but if I get national news….
Hahahahahaha!!! Mualllalallalla!!!
The amazing thing is, if you read these articles, MS is probably selling more Macs than Apple’s marketing department, given people’s horrible experiences with Vista.
@Jordan:
I appreciate the attempt at Vista marketing, but too many people know the truth. Unfortunately for M$, there is no amount of fake personal stories that can overcome the avalanche of reality. Vista sucks and the best thing that can be said about it is that it tries to mimic OS X (even if it does it poorly). Although Mac OSs have always been ahead of the curve, X is now pulling away at an embarrassing rate.
@Tired of Retards
You know, I read these kind of comments here on MDN, and I am convinced that they are usually written by Windows sufferers to make Mac users look bad. This is one such example.
It seems the true points of disappointment with Vista are that it took so long to release, was still a bit buggy and is soon to be severely overshadowed (again) by an Apple OS (10.5). Perhaps the Microsoft zenith has passed but the zombie just won’t die, propped up by millions of users trapped by rote and an investment in hardware.
>Ashami wrote: You know, I read these kind of comments here on MDN, and I am convinced that they are usually written by Windows sufferers to make Mac users look bad.
Hardly. Most are written by Mac users who are just plain obnoxious! Mac users! But then again, if a person defines himself by the gadgets he uses that person is probably shallow anyway, regardless of platform.
From DOS 5 to XP…
So many perverts out there… scary!
MPC Guy,
Its not that. Its just that Mac users can’t grasp the amount of stupidity that people have to come up with to want to use Windblows.
Windows users don’t “want” to use it, they just don’t know any better
I am so sick and tired of Microsoft and their junkies telling the world that it took 5 years to develop VISTA. That pure BS, as VISTA is what WAS known as LONGHORN and has been in development MUCH LONGER than 5 years. Microsoft has succeeded in convincing people that VISTA is VISTA and LONGHORN is a different product altogether….. NOT TRUE! LONGHORN has been re-cycled to represent a different software product….. Someone needs to call Microsoft on their dishonest representation of the facts!
The article was good but many of the user comments after the end of this report are the killer.
Great letter!!!
The sad part is that SOOOOOO many others will continue to slug through their computing lives using Windows (and all the crap that comes along with it) because they think the Mac is just a toy, or that they “need Windows PCs for their work apps”, that’s the REAL shame. So to all those switchers out there, spread the word to your felllow Windows sufferers & help relieve them from their pain & frustration!!!!
@MPC Guy
>>Ashami wrote: You know, I read these kind of comments here on MDN, and I am convinced that they are usually written by Windows sufferers to make Mac users look bad.
>Hardly. Most are written by Mac users who are just plain obnoxious! Mac users! But then again, if a person defines himself by the gadgets he uses that person is probably shallow anyway, regardless of platform.
You are proving my point. Mac users don’t need to be obnoxious or shallow because there is no downside to being a Mac user. Many Windows users know that they are using an inferior product, and a common defense for this is obnoxiousness. This is why the “obnoxious Mac poster” is far more likely to be a Windows sufferer trying to compensate for their crappy machine. After all, if they knowingly bought an inferior product, that can play havoc on the ego. Instead of doing the mature, healthy thing by turning in that PC for a Mac, they come on to Mac forums and waste everyone’s time (just like Windows) by pretending to be something they’re not (also something that Windows does).
As an example, if Mac users are so obnoxious, why are you wasting your time on a Mac forum on a Saturday night? It can only be due to a deep-seated, frustrated desire to BE a Mac user, but the unhealthy identification with Windows creates cognitive dissonance resulting in both a denial of reality and the strange act of pretending to be someone else in order to assuage a painful sense of inferiority. Sad, really.
Do yourself a favor. Get a Mac.
I have to say. I hate microsoft. That said, I do have vista on my MBP for games (only vista because I didn’t have XP) and it hasn’t caused me any issues. I Dont “like it” or anything but it has run fine.
@Kevin, bless you, I tried the same and they regret it to and are not cheaper out as well …