http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/ Engadget Comments for Bill Gates: top ten greatest hits (and misses) - the Microsoft years http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
What's wrong with it? Ever use one? And...

"Vista doesn't suck. Let's just get that off our chests. In fact, it's a quite capable, secure and sexy OS when you get right down to it."

Yet it is one of Microsoft's greatest misses? Eeeh...]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
The Zune Player it self is awesome, beating the iPod in most aspects.
The downside, is the software for your computer is terrible!
It's buggy, doesn't recognize music.
Zune would be a lot better if WMP could be used, or iTunes.

So it hasn't been a huge smash, or a huge loss]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
All the flaws are what makes it a failure

]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Zune 80 - Hit
Zune 4/8 - Neither hit nor miss.]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
"naturally, Microsoft had a third PlaysForSure-based store waiting in the wings with Zune, which doesn't appear to be going anywhere any time soon."

I didn't think they could make an article like this without taking a shot at Zune. All in all, I think it's a good thing Zune is not on the list. Put it either as a success or failure and you'll get flamed. In actuality, it's not really either; people that like it really like it, those that don't downright despise it. Did they succeed or fail? Depends on who you ask.]]>Jun 27th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
I in no way see how the zune is a failure. It's just unfortunately overshadowed.]]>Jul 2nd 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/

I can name a lot of iPod flaws, that doesn't make it a failure.]]>Jun 27th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
They just released in Canada a few weeks ago and I bought one. It's an absolutely beautiful little device and I find the US and the usability of it leaps and bounds better than the iPod's Click Wheel (iTouch/iPhone aside of course).

I've shown it to a couple of people in my office and it made such a good impression that one or two people said they were going to get one too.

]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/ iPod; iPhone > Windows Mobile device.

I wish MS would take WMP and place a good, simple, easy to use store within it. I dont really like iTunes either. I find it very clunky.]]>Jun 27th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/what makes iTunes so great? its basically a parallel program to Zune Software, but the Zune has a music subscription.
The iPod has much more time to develop while the Zune has only been out around two years...

It IS a great product, and if u BUY a song, it'll work on other mp3's/players, but if u subscribe, it only works on the Zune program and on Zunes...but what else would u need it for? The Zunes the best!! hehe

also, you don't need to buy your music from Zune to listen to it...for some, you just have to convert it like iTunes and stuff as well...not like Apple products accept all types of formats...]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
they do need to standardize around something and not have 2 media players. I have a feeling going forward zune will be the media software of choice since there really isnt anything left in media player.

]]>Jun 27th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
So dont use Microsofts weak marketplace. Patronize Amazon's DRM free mp3 store instead.]]>Jun 27th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/]]>Jun 27th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
I'm a hardcore ipod user, and love my mac, but I've got nothing against the zune. The device is almost completely successful technically, but as a product, it fails, because apple dominates the market.

Example: I'm a junior in high school, with about 125 in my grade. probably about 110 actively used ipods there. not one zune. ]]>Jun 29th 2008 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 30th 2008 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
* I love microsoft]]>Jul 2nd 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvskEGWMLp4&NR=1]]>Jul 3rd 2008 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Also, I'd reject calling something a failure when it's sold 2 million units *in the US alone* and managed to unseat Creative from 3rd place in the PMP market so quickly. (In an iPod-dominated world, that's actually kind of impressive.)]]>Jul 6th 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/If you don't see the value in a subscription music service you're simply not a music fan. Or at least you're not a smart music fan. Having a Zune Pass (and Urge before it) has absolutely exploded my taste in music. There's nothing better than being able to listen to almost any album (the whole thing, not 30 seconds) you want and download it at a click of a button for no extra cost. I could never go back to the days of buying an album based on how much I liked the artist's previous work or how well it was reviewed or how the album artwork looked. By my calculations if I never downloaded another song and paid to keep everything for the rest of my life I would have gotten more out of it than the price I paid. And even if my subscription went away right now there's no way to quantify the benefit of all the new stuff I've found out about.
In that vein PlaysForSure wasn't a miss at all. It was simply marketed wrong to a public who is apparently still shackled with the misconception that it is better to "own" music.]]>Jul 11th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jul 12th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Uhhh, I have to restart my computer with all updates as well as driver updates. I don't know why you don't have to!
@Kenboldt
Yeah Linux is da-bomb. But it isn't for those who are impatient. Takes a lot of reconfiguring.]]>Jun 27th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jul 15th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
To add to insult, I considered using vista, but then decided to boot camp XP instead.]]>Jun 27th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Ditto here, well... except for the fact that I use Linux, and hit alt+F2, but otherwise, same experience, no crashes, no viruses, no incompatibility, full hardware detection and functionality our of the box, and a handy quick keystroke to open up any program of choice. Yup, XP IS A JOKE. =D]]>Jun 27th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
I'm sorry to say this (not really), but you sound like a computer-moron with that comment.

I've used XP since its release, then switched to Vista at its release. So far Vista is far superior, but not perfect. Here are the only problems I've encountered:

XP and Vista machines do NOT like each other on local networks....getting them to talk is a major pain in the ass.

Many peripheral companies simply won't spend the time/effort/money to write Vista drivers for their [slightly] older stuff, meaning many things like printers and even EAX on SoundBlaster sound cards just won't work. This isn't Microsoft's fault though.....I fully blame the other companies that just want to force people to buy new versions of the same crap.

Sometimes the popups requiring authorization to do anything to the file system or settings can be annoying. However, those popups are a large part of the reason I have yet to encounter any malware on 2 machines in over a year....and I don't use antivirus software because I feel like it hijacks the computer. Also, those popups can be disabled.


By the way, Apple's OS's, while they used to be better, more stable, and more secure than Windows, are not anymore.

As for Vista making the miss list, if you read the paragraph carefully, it is obvious that it's not there due to its own merits, but because of the way Microsoft handled its release (delays and incorrect labeling of PCs as Vista ready). Because of those and the problems I listed above, many people have pre-formed opinions that will never go away no matter what.]]>Jun 27th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/Jun 27th 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
I also have recently got and iMac, and wow, just wow. Its as good as any PC i have ever used and will run games as well as any decent PC.]]>Jun 28th 2008 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Each to their own, and I'll be watching with interest the direction they take with Windows 7, I like the sound of some of the ideas there.

(In the end I chose XP for my bootcamp partition, Vista isn't as lean for games, but if i used it for other things I'd go Vista)]]>Jun 28th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Vista does nothing new, not one single thing better than XP, except need a better video, more memory and a faster processor than the corresponding XP box.

Does Vista suck? Honestly, in a vacuum, no, it's OK. However when considering the required investment required to have a satisfying user experience as compared to XP, yes, it does suck: money from your wallet.

I can see taking a performance hit if the features they talked about originally actually materialized, such as a SQL like filesystem, etc, but at the end of the day all they did was create a system that costs more to do the same thing as my old system. Aero is OK looking, but requiring a discrete video card for a business class machine to run it is stupid. at the risk of getting flamed, how come Apple is able to do what they do with Aqua just fine with the integrated intel graphics chip (MacBook), but Vista wants 128 MB video card for Aero? I don't get it.

I'll keep buying systems with XP as long as I can, but I'm not going to pay an extra $100 for the privilege of having Vista (which I'll never use) AND XP.

So... Since I need MS Office for my job, I guess my next system will be a Mac.

I've had every MS operating system since DOS 3 except Me.

So long, Microsoft, it was fun while it lasted.

Signed,

A disillusioned formerly loyal customer that you've driven to the competition.]]>Jun 30th 2008 7:22PM