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Lets go.....]]>Sep 6th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIvgQ9ik48&NR=1]]>Sep 6th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
BSODs ??? !!!!!!
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#1 CRYSIS

#2 CRYSIS: WARHEAD]]>Sep 6th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
"SERVICE PLANNNNN!!!?!?!??!"]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
Holy shit, seriously? Your comment was so insightful, I'm surprised Engadget hasn't let you write a full on editorial on the subject. I've never heard anything quite like it before.]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/It's not just that it's bloated, it's that what it's been bloated with isn't good. The 3d program switcher looks neat, but it's not that useful. Not to mention it's unreliable on even the fastest of computers.

As for their new ads, the Mohave one was probably the best. Although they took a bunch of people who never used vista or saw vista to do the tests, and used MS's own computers. Sounds to me like they would have been even more impressed by this new OS, called Windows XP. =\
Focus groups are notorious for people giving the info the company wants in this sort of test. Good focus groups hide their intentions, this one did not.

MS just isn't used to having real competition, and people just gobbling up their stuff.
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I've installed Leopard on old iMacs...the ones with the round base and the LCD on the metal arm. 1GHz PPC, 1GB RAM. There is noticeable lag and I definitely wish I had slapped in Tiger or Panther instead. There's no way in hell Leopard is a wise choice for old hardware. Even the more recent releases of popular Linux distros have become more demanding. Thank teh LAWD for xUbuntu and Arch Linux. Any Linux distro used to do get the job done when I was trying to breathe life into legacy hardware that was just sitting around. Now I have to go searching for specialized distros that have trimmed the (unnecessary) fat.]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
MS not had real competition, eh?

Quick question: Which was incorporated first - Apple or MS?]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
FINALL MESSAGE TO ALL VISTA INFIDELS]]>Sep 6th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
i paid 1,200 for a nice pc, couldnt fin vista worth crap]]>Sep 6th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
Meaning you bought an Intel quad core at 2.4 ghz and overclocked the crap out of it. Not something the typical consumer targeted by Vista is going to be doing. At all. Nor will they even be building their own machines. At all. So your Vista dollars-to-performance experience, while accurate (maybe), is not relevant to the broad Vista-using market. At all.]]>Sep 6th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 7th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/anyone else finding the crysis comments a lil tiresome? its on par with the doom and blend thing now.
before you cry flashpoint i do run windows as well as osx and my machine is more then capable of running crysis.. but lets face it the games not actually that good, its kind of like the monalisa, looks good but theres just no point to it.]]>Sep 7th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 7th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/]]>Sep 6th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/Sep 6th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/

At least, they're not an apple zealot glee club like engadget are.
At least they balance their opinions with the actual news. This s**t rag never seems to do that.

And at least CNN can from time to time write a story that isn't entirely positive about apple
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/08/29/apple.loyal.ap/index.html


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They did a good job though, he sold me the Mac told me everything about it and even helped me put Vista on it!]]>Sep 6th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
Really? biased? i see no bias... its a regular news story. Which part is biased, i would like you to tell me, because it looks to me as if your defending microsoft after all this crap they are pulling]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/"We're not in the business of covering software...unless there's a gadget angle."

Where is the gadget angle here Engadget?]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/06/windows-gurus-to-infiltrate-retail-stores-tell-you-why-vista-ru/
Possibly because they're not having a go at the shambling fucking Neanderthals that populate the Apple Genius (oh the irony!) Bar to balance things out?]]>Sep 6th 2008 1:14PM