“If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista, just read this Wall Street Journal article detailing PC manufacturers attempts to design around Vista’s shortcomings, shortcomings that no amount of marketing are going to fix,” Matt Asay writes for CNET.
…[S]ome PC makers are trying to improve that [Vista] experience by adding their own proprietary software to their machines. In some cases, they’re creating new user interfaces intended to make Vista faster and easier to use. In other cases they’re replacing applications from other software companies with their own….
Today, Microsoft encourages PC makers to build software “on top of Windows Vista that enhances the customer experience,” according to an email from Lauren Moynihan, a senior product manager at Microsoft.
Asay writes, “This is the problem: they can’t. At least, not as much as they’d like. PC manufacturers are trying to stand out, but given that they’ve ceded so much power and control over the computing experience to Microsoft, the best they can provide is ‘Windows dressing.’ For Sony, HP, or other PC manufacturers hoping to create an Apple-esque experience, forget it.”
Full article here.
Bah! Poop is poop. It can’t be polished, dressed up or made pretty.
Gotta love…colossal failure.
“The colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista”
Pwned.
New job classification at HP, Dell, Sony, et. al:
Turd Polisher – responsible for improving the “Vista” experience by grafting custom software onto a pile of sh!t.
Now all Apple has to do is say to IBM (Lenovo), HP & Sony, now here’s a licence for OSX…..
Windows Vista = ‘Chrome-plated Turd’
That still cracks me up.
MaWo: ‘mother’. As in, ‘If necessity is the mother of invention, then wtf happened with Windows Vista?’
ROFL
If you leave shit alone long enough it turns into a fossil.
Oh wait, Vista already is.
Tell it to the folks at Mac 360, a once- respected and beloved (by me) website for Mac users. Sadly, after founder Tera Patrick passed away, there has been a mass exodus- the two remaining part-timers have done nothing lately but complain and trash Apple and its products. One of them, Kate McKenzie, has even bought an HP laptop, and seems to now prefer Vista to Leopard. This is truly a sad day for those of us who used to love the site and still love Apple and the Macintosh experience despite its current growing pains and imperfections- which still do not even minutely make them less superior a choice than the insanely mediocre and aggravating world of Windows. And Tera, I’m sure, would agree.
Tacitus,
Read the history of the Mac clones and you will understand why that will never happen.
Poo is Poo…
It all smells.
Even if you dress it up color, pictures and whole new exterior finish.
Sony, HP, Dell and Lenovo can put lipstick on Windows it’s still going to smell and crash like Windows.
It time the manufactures created their own. They want to compete then they are going to need to roll their own. This is the Apple Advantage they’ve been rolling their own from day one. Everyone else forgot how because they let their pusher Microsoft roll for them.
If you what to stay in the game you got to roll your own.
Tacitus writes, “Now all Apple has to do is say to IBM (Lenovo), HP & Sony, now here’s a licence for OSX…..”
It’ll NEVER HAPPEN. OS X makes the Mac, and the Mac makes the money. Why would they give up 30% gross margins on hardware for much lower license revenue?
The only scenario that makes any sense to me would involve teaming up with HP or IBM to sell Apple hardware into the enterprise. Apple might even design an enterprise-only headless Mac just for them, as they once had the eMac for the education market.
@auramac,
Kate McKenzie, and those of her ilk, are simply harlots.
She probably bought a cheap-a** lappy and is now simply trying to justify the fact that she went over to the ‘Dark Side’ by saying to herself, and others, ‘It’s not so bad. See all the neat stuff it can do??’
Tera would be ashamed if she were alive today.
Mac OS X is still not ready for mass adoption. Apple is neglecting to fine-tune even their most basic apps, such as the Finder, between major updates. Why can folders only be created at the top-level of a expanded folder tree? Why isn’t full file management (create, delete, rename) available from with Open/Save dialogs?
Small incremental improvements, not major improvements spanned a year and half apart, are what will make Mac OS X the best in all respects.
ya, ive definitely noticed this. Dell is doing it now with it’s docks, HP with its touch screen interface… sigh.
@auramac
Very well said. I removed their bookmark last week. Ron McElfresh has wrongly characterized the Mac experience for a very long time now. I’m all for fair criticism, but to say they’ve lost their objectivity is an understatement.
There is no way to “enhance” the Vista nightmare that would make it better. Other than throwin’ it out with the trash.
I once put a nice pink bonnet with ribbons on one of my turds. It looked a lot nicer, but it still didn’t smell very good.
A pig in a dress is still a pig ! No amount of marketing, including Seinfeld commercials is going to change that FACT. I don’t blame PC manufacturers for trying to give their customers a better experience, in spite of the presence of Vista. No doubt MS has some lemmings that will follow them right off the cliff. IE Windows 95, Windows 98, XP, Vista …. need I say more ?
Mac OS X is still not ready for mass adoption. Apple is neglecting to fine-tune even their most basic apps, such as the Finder, between major updates. —coolfactor
@coolfactor: If you must be a moron, at least have enough self-respect not to advertise that fact to the whole world.
4 words:
Lipstick on a pig.
so why isn’t Apple doing even better?
@coolfactor
Why the fsck do you want create, delete, rename from Open/Save dialogs? Clue: that’s NOT what they’re for.
I’ll leave you to determine the stupidity of your other comment!
=:~)
Why do you want to Create, Rename, Delete from the Open/Save dialog?…
There are many times I wish those options were there in OS X.
Want to save a file to a folder that does not yet exist?…. why should you have to get out of the dialog, go create the folder separately in the Finder, and then return to the Open/Save dialog, navigate to the folder you just created and then save? Many steps could be avoided if this simple, and available in Windoze since at least XP, feature were added.
“Want to save a file to a folder that does not yet exist?…. why should you have to get out of the dialog, go create the folder separately in the Finder, and then return to the Open/Save dialog, navigate to the folder you just created and then save?”
What? In my OS X Save As dialog box, there’s an option to create a new folder without going to Finder separately…
@7over:
Do I miss something? Why not just click the big button labeled “New Folder”?