They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
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They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
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Re: They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
#2A fair criticism. There are plenty of Microsoft employees that don't use Microsoft products. I doubt the corresponding percentage is as high at Apple.
Re: They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
#3From the company that emphasized, "Eating your own dog food", they bring to you, Microsoft Windows Vista (Super Duper it will order groceries for you edition) ;-)
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#4Last resort strategy to make Vista better than XP:
"Mistakenly" push a Windows "Update" to XP that makes it excruciatingly buggy and borderline useless.
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#5Last resort strategy to make Vista better than XP: "Mistakenly" push a Windows "Update" to XP that makes it excruciatingly buggy and borderline useless.
you mean push out Vista as an upgrade, oh wait never mind :-)
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#6From the company that emphasized, "Eating your own dog food", they bring to you, Microsoft Windows Vista (Super Duper it will order groceries for you edition) ;-)
One danger about "eating your own dog food" is that your entire company can get blind to the faults they forced themselves to overcome/stomach initially.
"Eating your own dog food" gets you to find major flaws that get it working for yourself, but once it is "working for you" (even if that took a lot of workarounds and sacrifices) you've become accustomed to it "not being as bad as it was".
Working at a major MS partner and seeing Longhorn alphas/CTPs/betas/etc, I got a sense that they got too much into "this is acceptable" mindset while others were screaming "don't ship, don't go, ouch, danger".
This doesn't imply that eating your own dog food is bad. But perhaps you should always be aware that you can fry your taste buds on bad dog food.
I think it might be better to swap eating your competitor's dogfood and your own every other month or so to keep it fresh.
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#7this reminds me of what happened with the Xbox 360... if they only spent a little more time and money with quality upfront, then MS wouldn't have had to spend an estimated 1 billion dollars fixing it...
a 33% failure rate in an industry where 3% is the norm is just ridiculous - especially for something that costs people 350 - 450. (quality has recently been improved so that 360s only have a 10% failure rate; it's still over 3x the norm)
Sadly, I'm one of the morons that bought one, with wishful thinking that if MS controled both the software and hardware like Apple things would be better...
Re: They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
#8Microsoft's Vista : Software = White Star Line's Titanic : Transportation
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#9Last resort strategy to make Vista better than XP: "Mistakenly" push a Windows "Update" to XP that makes it excruciatingly buggy and borderline useless.
Lol, yeah, and say it's a lot more secure.
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#10I just wish Apple wasn't taking cues from Vista. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028... but one overview.