This time from Jim Louderback, the newly departed editor of PC Magazine, who uses his farewell column to do something I suppose he has wanted to do for ages -- tell the truth about Vista. "Why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly." See here.
Then there's this: "I could go on and on about the lack of drivers, the bizarre wake-up rituals, the strange and nonreproducible system quirks, and more. But I won't bore you with the details. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system."
Really? You think? Translation: Now that I'm no longer working at PC Mag, I can finally tell you the truth. Vista blows. Vista is a boat anchor. Vista paid my salary for the past few years, but now that I'm no longer sucking on the Redmond teat I'm going to play hero and tell you what I didn't dare tell you before.
Okay. I'm sorry. Maybe I'm cynical. Maybe it's just a coincidence that Jim's epiphany about Vista is only occurring right now. What's that? You don't believe it? Yeah, me neither.
You know, the courage of the Fourth Estate never ceases to amaze me. Have you ever seen a group of people so convinced of their own moral righteousness, and so absolutely full of shit? Okay, maybe medical doctors. But right after that comes the press. Such proud defenders of truth, justice and the American way! Putting their lives at risk to bring us the truth. What would our society do without them?
But I digress. We were talking about Vista. Beastmaster, Monkey Boy, throw in the towel. Vista is a disaster. By refusing to admit it, you're just making it worse. You look clueless, out of touch. You look like IBM during those years when they kept insisting the whole world really was going to move to OS/2 long after everyone knew it wasn't going to happen. Remember those days? Remember IBM putting out press releases talking about OS/2's fantastic momentum? Remember how you guys at Microsoft used to laugh at IBM? I'd tell you to go look in the mirror, but we all know you don't throw a reflection. But trust me. The ghost of Jim Cannavino is roaming the halls in Redmond.
My favorite part of the Louderback piece is where Handsome Jim ends on what I hope is an ironic note: "If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
Of course! Linux, the obvious choice! Because those Linux guys have really got the driver issue worked out. I'd offer to send you a new 24-inch iMac but you probably wouldn't like its rock-solid Unix foundation and its best-in-class user interface and its full complement of drivers. Nowhere near as nice as that brown Ubuntu desktop preloaded on a Dell. Good luck with that.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
More raves for Vista
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Now he's discovering the joys of Vista? The incombalities, the Drm? I agree, if he didn't mention them in the first couple of months, then either he was hiding it, or really, really, really dense.
Comparing Vista and Mac is like comparing a dirty brown Zune (hello!! where are you?) to a sleek, sexy iPod. Let's hope Mac captures the PC market!
Jim Louderback is a frickin' idiot. He turned the once-vaguely-respectable PC Magazine into a poorly-organized mix of "digital lifestyles" and hard-core tech articles not worthy of wiping dung from my monkey hole.
His experiences with Vista, however, are identical to mine - networking, sleep mode, and numerous other critical functions just don't work. They just fucking don't.
So now the cowardly turd is willing to admit it, because he no longer lives off us MS adverts. Hooray for him. What balls he must have.
This stuff is almost as predictable as Emad posting a nonsensical comment about every FSJ blog entry.
Linux, obviously.
After all, that's MY hand.
Linux is boring
"Remember how you guys at Microsoft used to laugh at IBM? I'd tell you to go look in the mirror, but we all know you don't throw a reflection."
So True! Laughning so hard - tears are streaming down my face!
Another filthy hack abandons Vista.
James Fallows says:
"I've had enough of Vista, for now, and am 'downgrading' to Windows XP. Here are the reasons."
The poke at reporters and physicians is spot-on, and in the right order.
A couple of Karl Kraus quotes for condiment:
The press stands in approximately the same relation to life as reading tea leaves stands to metaphysics.
Medicine: "Your money and your life!”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry. Thomas S. Szasz. Syracuse University Press
Spying video camera
Louderback Curls Into Ball
Quickly Preening Hair
Scrotum licking Commences
Another Filthy Hack Needs TV
/s/ Fake Fred Davis.
P.S. there use to be a site on Jim Louderback's teeth.No shit!
Oooh, send me one! I have a 20” iMac at home right now that I bought a year or so ago, but it’s so damn loud (the fan never stops), and it never goes to sleep either, unless I do it manually. It does wake up, however, as nicely as you could expect.
If you feel like counting, count up the pages in PC Magazine over the past 2 years advertising for Vista. I’ll bet you get a big fat nothing (or close to it).
Anyway, all the cool kids at Revision3, where I work now, all have Macbooks and iPhones. I’d feel like the frigging borg joining them. Mactards everywhere I look. Besides, I don’t think you’d actually let me own one, ya know.
I mean after all those years of dishing out the pain by the barrel. Remember, I was the one who called the hockey-puck mouse “the worst mouse ever”, and you actually quoted me in one of your keynotes. Made my day, I’m embarrassed to say.
Now that I think about it, It’s surprising that you let me buy the iMac we already own. Maybe you knew it was for my wife.
jim
Did you ever see Jim in any of the tech podcasts in which he participated? He came off like a quick to interrupt you with my deep (read shallow) thoughts male bimbo.
Fake Steve's prose calls to mind Peter O'Toole's character in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia: No Prisoners!
"I'd tell you to go look in the mirror, but we all know you don't throw a reflection."
Ha ha, your shots at Microsoft are getting better by the day.
Louderback has always been a mac hater.. on TV, in PC Magazine. He's biased.. and always will be.
Wow. Not only does Jim fail to get what warranties are for, but he also throws around terms like 'Mactard.' Go Jim, you're the genius the world of PC journalism needs now!
I wonder if there were any pages in his old magazine extolling the virtues of Vista, or giving 'how-to' guides. Funny that he forgot to mention that.
comparing a dirty brown Zune (hello!! where are you?) to a sleek, sexy iPod
You know if we were still talking about girls, I think I'd prefer brown and dirty.
and whilst we're talking about girls, I think a better analogy would be that Vista is the ugly retard sister who's put on too much perfume and lipstick and is wearing her short skirt again (pity she forgot her knickers )
Full complement of drivers? I had a NeXT; I respect Mach as much as the next guy (ba-dum, crash.) That said, let's be serious: Macs only have full driver support because there are a sum total of six devices that work for them.
Periscope up, cap'n.
This meathead is the same guy who, in June 1997, wrote that Microsoft invented FireWire.
The man lacks the ability to report and also not to admit or correct his mistakes.
The less we read from him the better.
BTW, did you notice how the first sentences were like a commercial for his new company. The man is an ass!
Scottman
Here's the problem:
Vista's flaws are making some people negative towards eye candy so they turn to Linux which on its best day looks about as good as XP in classic mode. They start to equate all this fancy eye candy with all the problems of their system. Anyone who has spent 5 minutes on OS X knows how stupid this is.
Vista sucks? Well, that may be true, but thats not really new to anyone I think, it was clear all along. The only reason Vista even sells ist the fact that OEMs have started putting it on their machines right after it launched. Yes, I know its ridiculous to put a brand new OS on new PCs that hasn't even been properly tested "in the wild", but they did it anyways.
However, one doesn't need a Mac or Linux to get around this problem. When I assembled my new gaming rig, I just bought a copy of good old XP Professional. All drivers are there, everything works fine hardware and software wise, and there are a lot of tweaks for XP that make it run faster and more stable than with standard settings. The only reason I have left a free partition for Vista is the prospect of DX10 games that may be released someday in the distant future.
"who uses his farewell column to do something I suppose he has wanted to do for ages -- tell the truth about Vista"
Make you wonder if you should ever read the site ever again if all they have done for the past 9 months is lie.
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