BTW, did I miss something? When Vista came out, I thought that MS was going to stop supporting Windows sooner or later, and eventually everyone would have to migrate to Vista. When I bought a new computer last year, I didn’t even see one in the stores that had Windows. Had I known that they would continue Windows, I wouldn’t have bought Vista.
So my question is, did MS go mum on upgrading Windows in order to push people to Vista, and only upgrade Windows after they figured they had sold all the Vista they could to suckers like me me? Did they essentially take Windows off the market while they were hyping Vista?
Vista, no doubt, coincided with stopping support of some older versions of Windows (95 and 98), but they never claimed it wasn’t Windows.
And, yes, the whole point of the campaign is that these are pretty obvious ideas - they’re not claiming they listened to these people (several of the ads, the person makes no claim of having told MS what they wanted, they just claimed that Windows 7 was their idea, because they independently came up with the same idea) - they’re claiming to have ANTICIPATED what people wanted, without being told.
**Munch **is right. Boyo Jim, I think you got a little bit confused by the nomenclature. Microsoft put out Windows Vista as the new version of the Windows Family of Operating System. It replaced Windows XP, which replaced Windows 2000 and you can keep going back, The Vista upgrade did not go well. There was plenty of early bugs. Even worse there was a lot of hardware that didn’t have drivers that worked really well. Anyway, time went on and Windows 7 was release (what you are seeing in stores now.) Windows 7 is the newest OS put out by Microsoft.
Well. I was late. But, now you heard it a few times!
That’s what they wanted. Vista was such a PR bust that they tried to disassociate from it. They changed the naming system, and–I suspect–let people get away with referring to the OS as Microsoft Vista instead of the full title. But Windows 7 is just an upgrade to Windows Vista. Microsoft Windows Vista is Windows 6.0, Microsoft Windows 7 is Windows 6.1.
I own both a MacBook and a PC and love them both. Because twenty-five years ago I was still coding simple actions into mainframe computers in obscure languages, and had to call the library or buy a book if I wanted to know who starred in a movie, and had to go to a convention of nerdy people to get any sense of non-church community, I try now not to be a whiny bitch about the tools I’ve been given.
About the same, but fantasy Crystal looks like she’d take 90 minutes to get ready to go out, wouldn’t want to do anything where she might break a nail, and would be rude to waitresses.
I’ll be sending you an invoice for the cost to replace my beer and clean my monitor.
Edit: Well, it appears that you should be sending me an invoice for the cost of fighting my ignorance - Windows 7 is in fact officially version NT 6.1.7600.
I understand the commercials, but I don’t like them. I’d prefer them to say “we listened” rather than make people look like morons for claiming responsibility for it.
Well, consider it universal no longer. I got a new laptop with 7 preinstalled, and I hate it so much I’m in the process of installing Vista on it (got the OS installed, but still need to get the drivers in order). I would just install XP, but good luck finding XP drivers for a brand new laptop in 2010.
Cute British chick might think it’s miles simpler, but I find it miles more pain in the ass to set things up the way I’m used to setting things up.
Ah well, I’d have had to set up a dual boot anyway, as some software I need just won’t run in 64-bit OSes.
