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I don't care whether Windows 8 is better or worse than Vista as a product. What I see is that uptake of Windows 8, and general consumer reaction, has been terrible, and their efforts to address this were far worse than what they did for Vista.
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Chris Maunder wrote: general consumer reaction, has been terrible
And was driven by poorly managed PR and poor advertising. (Dancing Surface Pros? Give me a break.) In fact, the reviews were ignored by M$ and never really addressed. That was Balmer's poor decision, not Windows 8 / Metro / Start Screen.Chris Maunder wrote: their efforts to address this were
non-existent.
So I guess we agree on something. 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Exactly. The Windows 8 launch, consumer reaction and subsequent followup are, to me, a far bigger mess than the Vista mess ever was.
The thing is I never really got why everyone hated Vista.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I never really got why everyone hated Vista
UAC.
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And drivers. The OEMs dragged their feet on drivers, which were the biggest source of stability issues with Vista.
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I think most of the problems were with the way UAC sometimes silently broke things or the errors returned were totally misleading.
Also the file and registry virtualization caused problems.
I did not like the beta and it took some time to learn the in’s and out’s of Vista to get along with the UAC and virtualization problems that were introduced.
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Longhorn-Vista? He's being modest. I like this one:
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (April 2007)
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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I prefer Vista over Windows 7. It's look and feel is closer to XP 
I can't stand Windows 8, It just doen't work the way I do.
I hate the swipeing which is why I still have an 8 year old cell phone. and No tablet.
I don't want to have to remember shorcut keys or type in a search term to navigate around it.
I have no Need for windows store Applications.(so far)
I'm not on all of the Social networks. or play games all of the time.
The dull flat ugly look makes me want to throw up just looking at it.
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Glassdoor has announced our sixth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, honoring the 50 Best Places to Work, and new for 2014, the 50 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work For. Winners were determined by the people who know these companies best — their employees. C'mon, CodeProject should be at least in the top 10
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I guess you need to post more astroturf reviews on their site next year. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft is considering making Windows Phone and Windows RT available free of charge to device makers. "Give away the razors, sell the blades"
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Today, we are announcing a new service that makes it easier than ever to import your Gmail account to Outlook.com. This will be rolling out to everyone over the coming weeks, so if you don't have access to it yet, check back soon. "Growing frustration with outdated email services". Cute, Microsoft, cute.
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OTOH the hard part is still going to 10k other sites and switching your account info to your new address on them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: 10k other sites
Really? you have that many? I realize that's an exaggeration you're using to indicate "a lot", but still...
I've only around half-a-dozen that I care about and even some of those I use a junk email address as my login. The others that I don't care about, and visit once-in-a-lifetime, I use another junk email address and forget about it.
My wife and I each have an outlook account (which both switched for me by M$ from hotmail) and I really don't like it as much as gmail.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: Really? you have that many? I realize that's an exaggeration you're using to indicate "a lot", but still...
Probably; but switching accounts over as I used them was major PITA for a few months; and I was still finding occasional accounts tied to my legacy provider several years after I moved my primary account to gmail.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I dunno. I've easily got in the mid 50s or so.
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I definitely recommend getting a custom domain. That way it can follow you around when you make changes like this (of course, it does mean changing all your emails at least once).
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TTFN - Kent
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I have a domain (but would probably get a 2nd for email use); but I'm completely uninterested in running my own mail server/spam filter/webmail gateway, nor do I have any faith in xyz cheaphost's ability to offer services with anything approaching the capabilities or reliability of the major providers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You can still use a custom domain and have the email handled by gmail or whatnot.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Oooh Goodie. 
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"Growing frustration with outdated new-fangled email services".
FTFT
AOL still rocks! 
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All you've got to do is listen to Schmidt talk for 5 minutes to be convinced that Google is not a place for your data.
Any data.
Guck Foogle.
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Youtube user GhostlyRich uploaded a video of his phone after it caught fire
Samsung ordered him to remove the video before it would replace handset Nice going, Samsung.
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Correction to the statement that the Samsung Galaxy of a swiss girl has caught fire:
Miss Schlatter's battery was later subject of an investigation, and it turned out that Samsung never sold the type of battery found in her phone. Even though it may be possible that some Galaxys catch fire, in case of Miss Schlatter it was completly her fualt, since she didn't use an original battery.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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