OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: It's a marketing problem" by bornagainenguin

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:04 UTC

As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from. It runs just fine on my old (6 years) machine, all my software and hardware is compatible, and it's stable as a rock. Microsoft has been wondering the same thing, and after a little test, they may have found out why people seem to dislike Vista so much.

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RE[2]: It's a marketing problem

by bornagainenguin on Sat 26th Jul 2008 20:04 UTC in reply to "RE: It's a marketing problem"

Member since:
2005-08-07

google_ninja said...

Who doesn't do that though? Apple's ad campeigns are made to make you feel smarter and cooler then your neighbours, hell, firefox 3 claims to give you a whole new internet.

I was with you until you brought in Firefox....

Go ahead and download the latest Firefox. Install it and head over to addons.mozilla.org and install the following extensions:

Adblock Plus
Adblock Element Hider
No Squint
Stylish

OPTIONAL:

No Script
CustomizeGoogle
BugMeNot

After you get all that done, and selected a few basic lists for adblock Plus to use, hit up userstyles.org for some of your favorite sites to see how different they can be!

If that isn't a whole new internet, I don't know what is!

--bornagainpenguin

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RE[3]: It's a marketing problem

by google_ninja on Sat 26th Jul 2008 20:18 in reply to "RE[2]: It's a marketing problem"

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2006-02-05

FF3 fixed some of the most glaring of bugs in the browser, but there is absolutely nothing the least bit revolutionary in it, which is how it was billed. Like it or not, IE has a more innovative interface then firefox, Opera has a huge laundry list of innovative features that firefox doesn't have, and Safari has an incredibly clean code base and very fast rendering.

FF has above average javascript support and its plugins, but the plugins in general are very poorly written, which makes the already bloated and buggy app consume even more memory and become less stable. That leaves the javascript, which doesn't even really matter unless you are using objective-j or sproutcore apps every day.

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