toyo Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Back on November 30, 2006, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer launched Windows Vista to businesses at the NASDAQ headquarters in New York. But while Ballmer's tongue hanging out might have been an expression of the enthusiasm and excitement orbiting around the hundreds of millions of Vista copies estimated to ship in the first year, the exhibitionism of frenetic applause was just a taste of the $500 million marketing campaign for the consumer launch of the operating system on January 30, 2007. And at the end of January the Wow hit not only store shelves but also every possible channel of advertising stretching from traditional media to the Internet. But even before the consumer launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates began applauding the Wow to come. The Redmond company even debuted an initiative dubbed "Show Us Your Wow", with a special invitation delivered by Gates himself. "What's a "wow moment"? It's that instant when you recognize that your life has changed—the moment you transform an idea that you once only dreamed of pursuing into something you have actually achieved," Gates stated at the time. Vista's release to the general public was compared with the availability of the 8080 Intel microprocessor. And of course that with the T.V. video advertisement for Vista, the operating system's Wow was situated as an equivalent of additional amazing, incredible and exhilarating moments.Eight months into Vista's availability on the market and the Wow is now officially pronounced dead. The "Show Us Your Wow" website is no more, visiting it will display such messages as: "404 error - Page Not Found" or "We're sorry. We seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties, please come back again soon." And this is not an isolated incident in October, it has been going on since July 2007. This is why below you will be able to find the autopsy of the Wow. On the Windows Vista official website the Redmond company has an exhaustive list (and by exhaustive I actually mean highly repetitive and failing to drive the point home) of no less than 100 reasons and I quote "why everyone's so speechless." "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless - Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words. Many people just say "Wow." Here are 100 reasons why," reads the message that you can access on the Vista Wow. (The Wow reasons are all quoted from the official Vista website - emphasis added)...Full Story (Softpedia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 vista just sucks all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Vista SP1 with the right hardware should be fine..Been on Vista for a few months now.. been fine.. no issues at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Vista SP1 with the right hardware should be fine..Been on Vista for a few months now.. been fine.. no issues at all...main pain i have is the wireless network. if there is a problem it gives you an opition to remove or repair something. never do that. you will have to use restore. (esp the one that said you have a older or malfuc driver when its a vista bug isntead)sp1? waiting or is this something someone put together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarretje Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Vista SP1 with the right hardware should be fine..Been on Vista for a few months now.. been fine.. no issues at all...main pain i have is the wireless network. if there is a problem it gives you an opition to remove or repair something. never do that. you will have to use restore. (esp the one that said you have a older or malfuc driver when its a vista bug isntead)sp1? waiting or is this something someone put together?Got Vista for a few months now and it works great :) No issues at all. Nearly all programs work fine and with latest updates network is perfect too! Don't now why everybody says Vista is bad, just test it yourself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Vista SP1 with the right hardware should be fine..Been on Vista for a few months now.. been fine.. no issues at all...main pain i have is the wireless network. if there is a problem it gives you an opition to remove or repair something. never do that. you will have to use restore. (esp the one that said you have a older or malfuc driver when its a vista bug isntead)sp1? waiting or is this something someone put together?Got Vista for a few months now and it works great :) No issues at all. Nearly all programs work fine and with latest updates network is perfect too! Don't now why everybody says Vista is bad, just test it yourself!vista 32 or 64? and fresh installment or upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarretje Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Vista 32 bits, bought with my new, custom made, PC. So a fresh install :) But we have another PC here, also with Vista 32 bits, but that's an upgrade. Also works fine:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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