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Linked by John Doe on Thu 15th Feb 2007 17:56 UTC

Shock and awe; Windows Vista has been released to the hounds (that would be us). As just about every publication has reiterated a thousand times over it took 5+ years of design and development and cost USD 5.5 billion both directly and indirectly. We were promised (maybe not even promised, but bullshitted) a revolutionary operating system and what we got is for you to determine for yourselves. I personally think it's a disappointment to say the least.

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Not worth much

by fretinator on Thu 15th Feb 2007 18:29 UTC

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2005-07-06

This article is not worth much. I knew I was in trouble when I read this line in the first paragraph:

We were promised (maybe not even promised, but bullshitted) a revolutionary operating system and what we got is for you to determine for yourselves

I hear the domain enquirernews.com is still available.

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RE: Not worth much

by RGCook on Thu 15th Feb 2007 18:41 in reply to "Not worth much"

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2005-07-12

I understand your sentiment but John Doe makes no pretenses about an objective review. And he's right on every issue, complete with his raw disgust. OK, maybe we've hammered enough proverbial nails into the Vista coffin, but misery loves company does it not?

What concerns me is the next big challenge that lays ahead - that being the efficient use of multi core processors. Think the OS code is already too complex? Things can only get worse.

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RE[2]: Not worth much

by fretinator on Thu 15th Feb 2007 19:34 in reply to "RE: Not worth much"

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2005-07-06

I don't have a problem with his conclusions, just the style of the article. It's not well-written. Period.

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