[THIN] Re: New Microsoft commercial

Jim is, he is an MS backer. Much more than I am. I can empathize with his current plight.

 

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:04 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: New Microsoft commercial

 

Look,
I am no MS Hater.  I've been one of their biggest cheerleader since dos 2.1, 30 some years ago.  It just REALLY irks me that they are spending this type of money to try to "improve" their image when really all they need to do is just engage the vendors and help show them how to write their programs and drivers work on Vista. Thats all.  Seriously. Thats it. That is ALL they need to do. 

I'm not finding any humor in the fact that I have 750 Vista PC's sitting here for over a year now that I can't deploy because every time I think I have a "golden image" another gotcha comes along with Vista that prevents me from implementation. ONE YEAR!!! I though woohoo, SP1 will come along and fix my problems. Boy was I wrong.  The bottom line is Vista works great IF A:) You are not on a domain using roaming or mandatory profiles.  B:) You are an administrator of your machine. Otherwise the list of incompatabilites in programs and drivers is sickening. Blame it all you want on 3rd party vendors, but it is Microsoft's problem.  And Bill Gates adjusting his shorts or doing the robot no matter how funny you find it, is not going to change peoples opinion of Microsoft when they have a computer in front of them causing maddening issues.

If this continues, no matter how bad they may be, I will be considering Macs or Linux for our next purchase, at least I know the programs I need to put on the local desktop on them will run. I can run the rest from Citrix.

Jim 


Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Douglas A. Brown <dbrown@dabcc.com> wrote:

Guys I just found the time to watch the new one and I really like it.  It is funny....  T be honest, I'm excited to see the next one.

 

Also, it is funny so many people start analyzing it so much but the apple ones that are complete lies are never questioned.  Why is that?   Apple tells us I need to tape a camera to my of if I want a cam.  Not true...  They tell me vista is major surgury but when I upgraded my iPhone it crashes and bricks... So what is major and what is not?   

 

All in all I wish Microsoft would have gone after apple's lies about vista as they are so bad but all in all I really enjoyed watching the Microsoft ones.  I'm excited to see another!

 

Just my 2 cents...

 

 

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On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:37 PM, "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@thinclient.net> wrote: