Results tagged “vista”

TechCrunch has a guest post by Jon Bach, who apparently travels on his own straight-talk express: "Microsoft has created a real mess in the industry with Windows Vista. On its release in January 2007, most major manufacturers dropped Windows XP from their products, only to add it back months later at the demand of their customers." more ›

We can't remember now if it was on Lie to Me or The Mentalist, but on one of them, they mentioned that an indication that someone's lying (or doesn't have confidence in what they're saying) is when they repeat a question verbatim. That's why we smiled a little reading this quote from Microsoft's Gavriella Schuster on TechFlash: "One of the things customers have been asking me is, 'If I make an investment in Windows Vista today, is it a throwaway investment?' And the answer is no. It's not a throwaway investment." more ›

A Hitler mashup about the Apple Cup made it onto the P-I's Big Blog the other day, and Managing Editor David McCumber has ordered it taken down posthaste: "I think we goofed in this instance." Hitler isn't funny, McCumber says. more ›

Last night we were trying to watch House, M.D., and one of those terrible Microsoft "Mojave" commercials came on, which implied that the reason Vista hasn't sold well isn't because it sucks but because consumers don't know you can make panoramic photos with it. That's a feature on everyone's must-have list for a new OS, isn't it? So then we were like, Great, this is what intracranial bleeding feels like. more ›