CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XL: Acer's Gianfranco Lanci says "entire industry" disappointed by Vista
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 23rd 2007 5:49PM
posted July 23rd 2007 5:49PM
Acer President Gianfranco Lanci doesn't look to have minced any words about his thoughts on Vista during a recent interview with the Financial Times Deutschland, reportedly telling the publication that "the entire industry is disappointed by Windows Vista." As if that wasn't a big enough shot across the bow, Lanci further went on to say that it's "not going to change in the second half of this year," adding that "I really don't think that someone has bought a new PC specifically for Vista." Lanci apparently didn't have quite everything out of his system just yet though, also lambasting Vista for not being ready when it was released, saying that "stability is certainly a problem." We some suspect he won't be too pleased with Microsoft's recent pronouncements on the matter either.
Sorry wrong url. It should be: http://itanalystreports.com/rss/2007/07/22/idc-the-economic-impact-of-microsofts-windows-vista-worldwide-in-the-coming-year-july-2007-13-pages/
wait a sec...this is in the wrong category. seriously, he couldn't be more right.
Freakin right! I worked for a call center that was a partial outsource for Acer's first level support in Tulsa and we had NOTHING but trouble from M$ starting from 30-Jan-07. And when someone who has a "Vista Capable" XP box that wants to upgrade, M$ was telling our customers that we HAD to provide them the massive memory upgrade needed to run whichever version they wanted. WTH? What a bunch of goobs. Its a shame their OS didn't just work out of the box on what they said it would.
He's right.
Vista sucks ... and it will suck for a long time.
He is absolutely correct and I respect him so much for saying it out loud. I f***ing hate Vista. Its a total joke. Always telling me my pre-installed copy is not authentic. I was a hardcore PC guy, until Vista... now looking to make a permanent switch to anything but Vista.
I will go as far as saying that I've been holding off from buying a new computer because 90% of them comes with Vista. Not an option for me.
yea...ACER said this...not Dell...not Gateway...not HP...not Sony...Maybe eMachines will jump on the bandwagon there and they'll have some sorta weight in their comments lol
Acer probably just got a bad deal and spent too much money on licenses and now can't sell their junk machines so rather than admit that they aren't doing so well (or any better at least like they hoped to be), they can just blame it on Vista.
Vista has been good in my experience...Course I built my machine and I'm on a Mac at work (with Vista running) ... I think the new features in Vista are great and it's as stable or more stable than XP in my opinion. Hmmm, but I do miss windows 2000.
I know there are people out there that are very happy with Vista...but I think MS could sell shredded cardboard with the same hype they used on Vista and make millions. Face it everyone we have been taken for a ride.....where is the revolutionary new file system that was promised along with lots of other features that were removed just to make a promised shipping date. Oh and SP1 that was to put back in all of the futuristic advances is now not going to happen any time soon ? Also what about the new O/S that is being worked on now ??? Sounds like the WinMe disaster and they want to bury Vista. What we were promised and what we got were two very different things. All we ended up with was a redone WinXP at 3 times the price. Many of the PC manufacturers started out shoving Vista at us have back down and are offering XP or Vista as a choice in O/S. Sounds like there are some out there starting to wake up to the deception.
The notation of Roman numerals has varied through the centuries. Originally, it was common to use IIII to represent "four", because IV represented the Roman god Jupiter, whose Latin name, IVPITER, begins with IV. The subtractive notation (which uses IV instead of IIII) has become universally used only in modern times. For example, Forme of Cury, a manuscript from 1390, uses IX for "nine", but IIII for "four". Another document in the same manuscript, from 1381, uses IV and IX. A third document in the same manuscript uses IIII, IV, and IX. Constructions such as IIIII for "five", IIX for "eight" or VV for "ten" have also been discovered. Subtractive notation arose from regular Latin usage: the number "18" was duodeviginti or “two from twenty”; the number "19" was undeviginti or “one from twenty”. The use of subtractive notation increased the complexity of performing Roman arithmetic, without conveying the benefits of a full positional notation system.
Likewise, on some buildings it is possible to see MDCCCCX, for example, representing 1910 instead of MCMX – notably Admiralty Arch in London. Another notable example is on Harvard Medical School's Library which reads MDCCCCIIII for 1904.
Another likely tale is that the low literacy rate made it difficult for some to do subtraction, where the IIII notation could simply be counted.
Clock faces that are labelled using Roman numerals conventionally show IIII for 4 o'clock and IX for 9 o'clock, using the subtractive principle in one case and not the other. There are many suggested explanations for this, several of which may be true:
* The four-character form IIII creates a visual symmetry with the VIII on the other side, which IV would not.
* With IIII, the number of symbols on the clock totals twenty 'I's, four 'V's, and four 'X's, so clock makers need only a single mold with a V, five 'I's, and an X in order to make the correct number of numerals for their clocks: VIIIIIX. This is cast four times for each clock and the twelve required numerals are separated:
o V IIII IX
o VI II IIX
o VII III X
o VIII I IX
The IIX and one of the IX’s are rotated 180° to form XI and XII. The alternative with IV uses seventeen 'I's, five 'V's, and four 'X's, possibly requiring the clock maker to have several different molds.
* IIII was the preferred way for the ancient Romans to write 4, since they to a large extent avoided subtraction.
* As noted above, it has been suggested that since IV is the first two letters of IVPITER (Jupiter), the main god of the Romans, it was not appropriate to use.
* The I symbol would be the only symbol in the first 4 hours of the clock, the V symbol would only appear in the next 4 hours, and the X symbol only in the last 4 hours. This would add to the clock's radial symmetry.
* IV is difficult to read upside down and on an angle, particularly at that location on the clock.
* Louis XIV, king of France, preferred IIII over IV, ordered his clockmakers to produce clocks with IIII and not IV, and thus it has remained.
via wikipedia.com
Vista is ok... I use it but since I'm on wireless whenever I play games I get lag spike on it every 60 seconds (polling for access point). When you disable WLAN Configuration, the wireless stops working. So I had to install XP to dual boot and disable wireless zero configuration (xp version of polling for access point) and wireless works fine. If Vista can fix this issue then I can use it full time.
ok so does nobody remember when XP first hit the streets, everybody (myself included) was talking so much shit about it "oh i need new hardware to run it", "all the graphical stuff gets in the way". "it makes my computer slow". but now everyone is saying ohhh windows xp is the best and making all the same remarks about it. Do the people who bash Vista actually use it on a daily basis? I highly doubt it. I have been using vista on and off since the first alpha release and have been using it on all my computers since beta 2 hit the streets there is absolutly nothing wrong with it, ok the thing that pops up and asks you if you really want to do something is annoying BUT YOU CAN TURN IT OFF!!!! Let me ask you this is it more annoying to hit the yes button in windows or have to enter a password like in MAC OS X. Vista is a logical step from XP just like XP was a logical step from win2k. Yes you will have update some hardware but you know what that is what happens to technology, I'm sorry that your computer from 1995 doesn't run Windows Vista grow up and buy a new machine that what big kids do :) (BTW I'm not a MS fanboy I own an MAC as well and i do like it for photo / video editing because it is much easier and integrated than windows)