“A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple’s iPhone 4 to his own company’s problem-plagued Vista operating system,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. ‘It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that,’ said Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C.”
MacDailyNews Take: You might remember Microsoft’s Kevin Turner, he called Windows Vista “the most secure OS on the planet, including Mac OS X and Linux” in April 2009. Then, just when we’d finally stopped laughing, last July Turner said of Microsoft’s PC ad campaigns, “Wow. Did we punch right back? The PC Hunter ads, the PC Rookie ads clearly have been winners in the marketplace… And you know why I know they’re working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey — this is a true story — saying, ‘Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices.’ They took like $100 off or something. It was the greatest single phone call in the history that I’ve ever taken in business. I did cartwheels down the hallway.”
We’d still really like to see Kevin attempt even a single cartwheel. Of course, Apple’s record Mac sales continued to outpace the PC industry throughout Microsoft’s various ad campaigns. The one to which Turner refers was a case of false advertising, so of course Apple asked for it to be revised, which Microsoft promptly did. That “the greatest single phone call in the history that Turner’s ever taken in business” was that phone call speaks volumes. But, boy, those Microsoft “PC Hunter” and “PC Rookie” ads sure worked, didn’t they? They did if the goal was to increase Mac sales to record levels. Turner is like Ballmer’s Mini Me with a bad mustache. They’re both bad used car salesmen working for a derivative, mismanaged, hopelessly outclassed tech company.
By the way, nobody ever called Windows Vista the best operating system on the market. Nobody.
Keizer reports, “Earlier in his talk, Turner poked fun at the reception problems that have dogged Apple’s iPhone 4 since its June 24 launch. “One of the things I want to make sure you know today is that you’re going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not have to worry about how you’re holding it to make a phone call,” Turner said, referring to the Microsoft mobile operating system set to debut on smartphones this fall.
MacDailyNews Take: Cartwheel Boy is right on that count, hardly anybody will have to worry about holding a Windows Phone 7, uh, phone (smooth naming scheme you’ve got there as usual, Microsoft).
Keizer reports, “The iPhone’s position isn’t unassailable, Turner argued. ‘We’re back in the game,’ he said. ‘And this game is not over.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Channelling Sergeant Hulka: “So, go ahead, give it your best shot… Gutless… Punk.”
The incompetence at Microsoft is killing me.
These guys really ARE out to lunch, and don’t have a clue.
I’d like to say a big “thank you” to Kevin and Steve, for creating a stock that I will love to short long into the future.
Good job, gentlemen!
…is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Microsoft better watch out, they have very little to gloat about.
Kin you say Zune?
Microsofts Vista for phones is, sorry was, called Kin
Former Walmart exec.
‘Nuff said.
You have to really love it when Microsoft insults another company by using a comparison to one of its own products. Really. Let that sink in. It shows just how STUPID Microsoft is.
That said, nobody was buying Vista, whereas with the iPhone 4, I STILL CANNOT FIND ONE to buy. Hardly Apple’s “Vista.”
Microsoft needs to pay more attention to Google than Apple because they’ve already lost the race to Apple.
MacDailyNews Take: Cartwheel Boy is right on that count, hardly anybody will have to worry about holding a Windows Phone 7, uh, phone (smooth naming scheme you’ve got there as usual, Microsoft).
Apple has been mediocre at the naming also… The iOS. Don’t forget there is a full size all in one Mac thats been around awhile called the iMac. Just sayin’. They don’t do it often, but it happens to all companies.
Too bad Vista couldn’t be fixed with a bumper for the 1% of the users reporting the problem, eh Kevin? Try again monkey-boy junior!
Analogizing this to Vista just insults MS further. I could make some joke that it doesn’t matter how you hold a Win7 phone because no one will be holding one, but that’s too immature.
I believe, Win7 is “better” only because everyone forgot how much faster and easier XP was than Vista. Every time I get to use an old XP box, I’m like, “Wow, I forgot how fast XP was.”
Inversely, every version of OS X is faster than the previous. With tech like Grand Central and OpenCL, Apple’s on the cutting edge of computer science, let alone quality hardware.
I suspect about as many people will be holding a ‘Windows Phone 7 System Super Ultra 7 Phone Windows’ as are holding a Zune.
Whoever came up with that name needs a new vocation.
So they’re coming out of the woodwork. Wankers All. Let’s be clear about this. Apple iPhone4 has 1, I repeat, 1 problem that is not reproducible on all machines all of the time – it depends upon your location and signal strength (I know because I tested this yesterday). Vista on the other hand was filled with crap and accomplished nothing.
WTF? You cannot compare a freaking lousy and bloated OS with an inconsistent antenna issue on an iPhone. BTW Your f*king Ghost phone is always perfect until it makes it to market. Just like your nonexistent Courier and who can forget The Slate (Bitch slapped because you heard Stevie J say that). That thing was so bad that the maker ran for the hills and bought another OS.
Don’t even compare Monkey Boy! You are not fit enough to sit in the same room as Apple, let alone crack jokes at their expense. By the way, how’s that market cap treating you? A*hole.
Baghdad Bob reincarnated.
This coming from the pinheads that thought the Kin was a hot new product…
Nice suit Kevin, you look like a turd
When you are the best, there is only one way you can go, down. When you are the very best, even a minor ‘down’ gets blown all out of proportion.
I see more and more people who were going to buy an iPhone now waiting to see what Apple does to correct the problem. I just spoke with a woman in our office who has a friend who can produce the dropped calls standing next to an AT&T;cell while her 3G is working fine in exactly the same location. There is another woman in the office who cannot reproduce the problem on her iPhone 4 no matter what she or anyone else does. It really is a mystery. But it is having an effect. For now, people are simply delaying their purchases, if this continues, they are likely not to buy, and worse, Apple’s reputation for quality is suffering. Apple needs to act to supply a fix, software or otherwise, and if a fix is not possible, admit it and take their lumps, and provide free bumpers.
Of course, Apple might have avoided this problem in the first place if their field testing of the iPhone 4 had consisted of more than losing one of the fucking things at a beer garden.
Apple’s parts supply chain is now so extensive, and leaky, that the secretiveness is only resulting in products being dumped on the market without enough testing, without employees able to handle any problems that come up, and without adequate resources on hand to handle little things like activated the frigging products.
What happened to Windows Phone 1-6?
Sorry, NO comparison. You can FIX the phone problem, but EVEN MICROSOFT could not fix VISTA, right? Hence Windows 7?
Sounds like Apple Legal should call this guy again…
…and say:
“We have a betting pool going on in the office: the question is how many iPhone 4’s have actually been returned by our customers (over reception problems only) versus how many Kin customers Microsoft has actually sold to: so can you tell us the exact number of Kins you’ve sold, please?”
-hh
They are all so desperate to try to put a hickey on Apple. This disaster they are trying to fabricate is in the midst of the most wildly successful product launch of any electronic device by any company in history.
@ currentinterest,
If you don’t work at AT&T you are full of shit.
hey microsoft. what the hell do you think your doing calling the iPhone 4 apple’s WINDOWS VISTA. what ever happened to your windows kin phones!!!!! or did i not say WINDOWS VISTA PHONE EDITION!!!!!! ha ha ha!!!!!! they sure dissappeared fast huhhh.. i wonder if they were actually running vista because they sucked… or was it WINDOWS CE aka WINDOWS CRAP EDITION!!!!!!!!! iPhone 4 Rules windows drules
Ur all fuckin n00bs lololololololololol
Microsoft is slinging mud because they’ve had to eat crow for hyping windows 7 and all of it’s previous failures. I understand that they’re counting on version 8 to come to their rescue. HAH!!
I’m a Mac buyer and love Apple products!
Bozo.