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| Time: 23:34 EST/04:34 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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It's like politics. You start out by focusing on your ideas, how you want to improve things, maybe change the world a bit. But as the campaign slogs on, or as the legislation stalls, or the opinion polls begin to dip, you lash out. First at the media - for their "unfair, biased coverage" - then at your opponent. Until finally your "talking points" become little more than a laundry list of the "other guy's" faults and why you think he/she is "unsuitable" for public office. Such is the case with Microsoft's campaign to win the IT community over to Vista. What started out as a positive effort to promote Vista's many benefits - the "wow starts now" - has devolved into kind of character assassination of its predecessor, Windows XP. At least that's how I'm reading the new white paper being circulated by the folks from Redmond: A classic political hit piece, one designed to cut the "other guy" (XP) off at the knees. | ||
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| #1 By 82766 (122.107.52.221) at 5/27/2008 4:14:38 AM |
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I'm waiting for Latch to jump all over this!
but back to reality... Microsoft has very valid points in this whitepaper. I don't care what the nay-sayers dribble, Vista IS a far better platform than XP can ever be. A lot of people just can't see the core OS improvements within Vista. |
| #2 By 75046 (201.52.235.191) at 5/27/2008 6:53:22 AM |
| I just don´t know why the ridiculous InfoWorld wants so desperately "save xp"... Well, it´s a stupid publication anyway... |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 5/27/2008 7:46:18 AM |
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The article is representative of what technology journalism has become - blind, ignorant trash.
So a company develops a new operating system with many of the features customers have asked for - better security, better management, better deployment methods... and a publication reflecting these changes and features as compared to the company's older product and a "journalist" characterizes it as a hit piece written by a desperate monolith trying to hang onto its relevance. Idiocy. Lunacy. We are in a time where online ad revenue driven by Microsoft's competition shapes what we see. There is no more objectivity, because there is money in trashing Microsoft. There is money in trashing Windows Vista. Do not be confused by any of it. It's all driven by money, Ads by Google and people who need to get paid. |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/27/2008 8:41:36 AM |
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#1: No need to jump all over this as this isn't news. MS has done this for years. They always slag the previous golden child when promoting the successor.
#3: What would you do without the worldwide anti-Vista media conspiracy to blame everything on, eh? Take off the tinfoil hat; it doesn't do a thing for you. |
| #5 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 5/27/2008 9:12:29 AM |
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#4, Ha. Hardly. Ad driven revenue is the driver. It subordinates objectivity.
Vista is by far more secure than XP. Vista is vastly easier to deploy. Vista has hundreds of new policy objects that make it much easier to manage. Any admin, and IT shop is well aware of this. The truth of this as well as examples of that same truth are masked by the bunk that is in our press - press that is bought and paid for by online ads. I think both positions are easy enough to demonstrate consistently - no hat of any kind being required. |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 5/27/2008 11:27:56 AM |
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"Breaking news ! A conspiracy against Vista set up by Masons, Rosen Kreutz and others has just been discovered ; the HQ has been located in the "City of Sun", the well known hide-out founded by Tommaso Campanella."
Seriously speaking some people like it and some people do not. It is evil? Surely not. It is heaven? Again, surely not. It is just an operating system not an article of Faith. This post was edited by Fritzly on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 11:29. |
| #7 By 28801 (71.58.231.46) at 5/27/2008 12:46:25 PM |
| I was just trying to think of any product that wasn’t touted as "better" or having more features than its predecessor. I can’t think of any because there aren’t any! |
| #8 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/27/2008 12:47:04 PM |
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#5: Yeah, that must be it.
#6: What heresy is this?!?! Vista is the embodiment of perfection. It has never had any problems (except for those driver issues that weren't Microsoft's fault, natch.) Anyone who doesn't fawn over Vista is an asshat, and the reason it isn't selling as well as it rightfully should be is because of the evil machinations of an unwashed army of bloggers trying to take Vista down one ad-dollar at a time. This post was edited by Latch on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 12:48. |
| #9 By 28801 (71.58.231.46) at 5/27/2008 2:30:37 PM |
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"What heresy is this?!?! Vista is the embodiment of perfection. "
There's Latch trotting out the same old hackneyed lines that he attributes to the MS supporters on this site. For the record Latch, no one here believes Vista is perfect. Some believe it is the best OS currently available and that it has received much unwarrented bad press. |
| #10 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at 5/27/2008 2:47:31 PM |
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When Windows 7 comes out Microsoft will start trashing Vista...
This is Microsoft's version of Groundhog Day. |
| #11 By 23275 (172.16.10.31) at 5/27/2008 3:07:01 PM |
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It is not about extremes at all - not on either side of this debate...
It is about balance and about progress. Vista, opposite customer needs and demands, built on all before it. Windows 7 will do the same. What I am saying is that Vista IS more secure, more reliable, easier to deploy and manage. I am also saying that a great deal of the negative reporting against Vista is driven by a perspective that ignores the facts and realities experienced in the field and it is driven by ad dollars. People running and managing Windows Vista are experiencing the benefits of a more evolved Windows OS. Period. A great many other people, it seems, have yet to assess Vista is the larger context I have opined about here. Even end power users benefit from the tools in and around Vista. Take for example, the recovery and repair utilities available to it - one may boot into the recovery console and easilly hit a restore point (just one example). The article reflects none of this "truth" |
| #12 By 92283 (142.32.208.233) at 5/28/2008 9:42:08 AM |
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""The results for Vista products were harder to assess because only six rootkits could run on the OS, but the testers had to turn off UAC to get even this far. "
Vista is more secure. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146256/vistas_despised_uac_nails_rootkits_tests_find.html |
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