One year after Charlie Demerjian called Microsoft’s Windows Vista a “chrome plated turd,” he’s back to take another look:
“It has been a year since Vista was released, and I said I could not in good conscience go there. Since then, Vista has gotten a thorough airing, has been debated more than anything in recent memory, and for the vast majority, the chrome has worn off the turd,” Demerjian writes.
“[A year ago] I lamented the fact that MS was forcing me to use Linux against my will, but Vista was unacceptable to me on far too many grounds,” Demerjian writes. “To be honest, MS did try to engage me after I wrote that, but the sad thing is it was through bribery. I don’t use that word lightly, but there is nothing else I can call it.”
MacDailyNews Note: See the full article for more on the bribery.
Demerjian continues, “So, 12 months to the day after release, Vista is still a chrome plated turd, but due to direct abuses of the customer, much of that chrome has worn off. Activation servers that could never go down did for days.”
“Inviolate promises of user control over patching was shown to be far less important than MS needs to control your box, and hosts of other egregious violations show how much MS really cares about the people giving them money,” Demerjian writes.
Demerjian writes, “Until MS does a complete 180 on the anti-user aspects of Vista, it remains unsuitable for use to any rational person.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Stoo” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Get a Mac.
I just do not know why people think that the best machine in the world is a POC (piece of crap) box that is underpowered, under memory, and contains the cheapest parts of hardware one can find in the world, and they want to load Apple OS on it.
To me, its like buying a Gucci interior and putting it on a go-cart and wondering why the ride really sucks while driving in the rain, in heavy traffic.
JMHO
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@bizlaw
Charlie Demerjian evaluates lots of different hardware and software, much of which will not work on a mac but will have compatibility with a peecee.
BTW:
Is that deal on I offered you? You said aapl would be over $200us by the end of this week and I offered to sell you some aapl at $195us on 4feb08.
@ChrissyOne
“NOBODY controls my box.”
I hope they do sometimes… or you’re missing out big-time
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Twenty Benson: Yeah, I was thinking that she should at least give Energizer a shot at it.
just as I was thinking about controlling and C1’s box, I’m beaten to the punch.
NOBODY controls my box.
Thumb in one hole and two fingers in the other. The other hand on your throat.
You’ll love me for it. I’d swear.
@ Ampar
Puny batteries?
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I’ve been using Windows at work since its inception, and the more I use it, the more I think, “The more I use Windows, the more I love my Mac.” I have a wife I love, two cats I adore, and a Mac. Sometimes when I return from work, I’m not sure which to kiss first.
It’s okay to love your pets, as long as you don’t… *love* your pets.
@ ChrissyOne
Looks more like assault and battery.
If that’s yer box though… it’s got a very nice button.
Oops!
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Yep, No Zune Tang on here Either. Point proven!!!
Zune Tang, who are you really?
If you were a real Vista nerd you would be on here defending your crappy OS.
Arf arf!!!
@ChrissyOne
Don’t worry, it’s a platonic adoration. That being said, I was at work about a year ago while my wife was away visiting family. I called her and she asked how things were on the home front. I said something like, “Things are going well. Marco was a little darling last night; he came to bed about midnight and was very affectionate. He finally fell asleep nestled right against me.” After I hung up, one of the women I worked with said, “Ummmmm, Marco IS your cat, right??? I assured her he was.
“love your pets”
In truth, great movie line.
Re: Honda generator. Those are used now in dentists’ offices to power the equipment. It’s a new green solution. Patients in pain tend to be more flatulent and therefore produce methane. And everyone knows that abscess makes the fart go Honda.
Re: And that last one? Daaaaaaaaam.
@ Mark
You shoulda ran with it.
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“And everyone knows that abscess makes the fart go Honda.”
That was a long long way for just a little bit… But truly, my hat is off, my friend.
@ChrissyOne
Yeah, I could have said, “He’s my friend and he’s big, and black, and beautiful, and veeery strong.” All of which would have been true.
I love that picture of Ballmy and Gates, it makes you just wanna slap there heads
I see MDN is posting as ChrissyONe again… slow news day?
@ NumberTwo
I laughed so hard I went number one!
He’s absolutely correct that a Microsoft product is an insult. But the number one reason why some Windows users will resist switching to Mac no matter what pain Windows inflicts on them is… games [see following pages].
For non-gamers or those satisfied by an occasional title like Call of Duty 2, there is no excuse [okay, there is at least three things you can do in Windows that have no equivalent Mac shareware apps…[keep hoping]].
Has it been a year already. I still havn’t seen Vista up close so I can’t realy comment. If Windows is 95% of the market or whatever then you’d think someone I know has it installed, but no.
boring .. boring….
Please american girls come and get me.
and some fat Rich can give a job please.
I know ms is shit.
so that qualifies me for a job better than a MS employee.
OK
When the chrome plating wears off a turd, aren’t you left with shit?
Dang, where’s Zune Tang? I clicked and read this article to get his twisted take!!!