Star Forbes: 'Dim Vista'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Windows Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out." They also look at Office 2007.
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nxsty
Member since:
2005-11-12

And this is different from every other MS marketing push and Windows release how?

Read my post again. I didnīt say it was different. I said it was the thing they did best with Vista. Vista was a bit disappointing but they did a good job making it look great for sure.

But I don't think any other Windows release has been this hyped.

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MollyC Member since:
2006-07-04

"But I don't think any other Windows release has been this hyped. "

The so-called "hype" for Vista is nothing compared to Win95. Vista has had a relatively low-key launch wrt hype (compare it to Win95, or any OSX 0.1 release, for example).

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nxsty Member since:
2005-11-12

But at the time of the windows 95 release far less people had computers and very few had access to the then very primitive internet. So no, it coulnd't possibly have been the same thing.

And yes, Apple is good at hyping OSX too. But their releases usually lives up to the hype.

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