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A few Microsoft stories, along with comments.
1) Microsoft Tells Contractors To Take Seven Days Off, Without Pay
Microsoft has dumped ~1,000 technology contractors in an effort to save their bottom line for the current quarter as well as their fiscal year, which ends June 30th.
Some contract, eh?
He did? Where? All I saw him say was he'd tell your employer things to: "make sure your district knew who they had hired" Gee, are you lying...
I believe this points out the poor management still going on at MS. They are clearly at a point in time when they are desperate to get Vista, Vista Server and Office 2007 out the door ASAP and they cut their staff for a week. Stockholders are already ticked off after the recent loss of 12% of stock value, so they must really be griping at this point.
2) Bill Gates Presents Vista Beta Disks Plaque To Chevron
At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006, Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, presented a plaque containing the first three beta disks of Vista, Vista Server and MS Office to Alan Nunns, General Manager of Global Technology and Strategy of Chevron Inc.
Gee whiz. Such a gift. Buggy, poorly received Vista and Office beta 1 CDs stuck on a piece of wood. I want one. Not. I have no idea what this generous presentation was supposed to be about. I'd either be insulted, or I'd roll a trash bin on stage where I can toss the plaque, after of course a hearty handshake with Big Brother Bill.
3) Microsoft Announce Plans To Help Businesses Determine Vista Compatibility
comp.os.linux.advocacy is often infested with trolls, both with and without a Microsoft paycheck. They spend all the time deriding Linux and its applications, sometimes with merit, but more usually its a FUD job. Microsoft is...
Also at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006, MS announced a plan to help businesses determine whether hardware they buy between now and the release of Vista will be compatible with the new operating system.
OK. That says there is going to be PC hardware available into the future that is NOT Vista compatible. That is not encouraging. I have read some posts by wintrolls blethering on about how their PC from 3 years ago will be Vista compatible. Apparently not. Certainly, from what I have read about the graphics hardware requirements for DirectX 10, there are going to be a lot of sub-par video cards shipped in PCs.
There are also complaints coming out of Windows analyst reviews of Vista that the current Windows limitation of 2 GB installed RAM is wholly inadequate thanks to increased memory requirements of the new OS for optimum speed.
-- Fortune Magazine, 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today? Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool, not a challenge. Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'. He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software engineering in 1975
Because he chose not to engage you in an endless stream of your bogus drivel doesn't mean that what he snipped was removed dishonestly. He probably didn't it for the same reason everyone else does...
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