I thought this is Microsoft Watch, not Microsoft Watch Comments Watch. Where's the news? This is pitiful.

JDiggityDogg Says:
"...Microsoft Watch, not Microsoft Watch Comments Watch."

@JDiggityDogg|:^?)
Expected a News?
"NOW that's a 'WOW'"

correction|:^?)
Where you expecting news?
"NOW that's a 'WOW'"

The closest thing to a "WOW" is the 'Gateway COW'.

I don't know of one good Pirate who would be dumb enough to use a piece of s**t like Vista. No self respecting Pirates would use it! Which should say something for the quality of the product itself.

And Ballmer, should not be blaming us Pirates, for the "poor sales of Vista" in his own words. Nobody in their right mind wants this c**ppy software.

Wow Microsoft - Vista is soooo cool... Now how to I turned off all this cool crap?

Me:
Gadgets OFF
UAC OFF
Windows Switcher - Cute - Never use it
VPN - It takes more clicks than XP!
etc

Titled; "It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux"

http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20070828132605907

When you really need something to work, even Bill Gates uses linux.

The Contact Us form on this site doesn't accept any of my e-mail addresses as "valid"

I'm curious to see what the MC$E are going to do when they are faced with this piece of crap call 'PowerShell'.

If you think Vi$ta is bad. Wait til Window$ $erver 2008.
Vista was based on Longhorn aka Win Server 2k8.

"I don't know of one good Pirate who would be dumb enough to use a piece of s**t like Windows Server 2008."

thx. Captain Jack Sparrow (fake) : for that last quote |:^?0

So basically, this article merely points out those of us that are most adaptable to change and those who are not. Sounds like a Darwin thing.

Those of you who can't handle Vista, get a Mac and a Steve Jobs action figure and stop complaining.

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=741891990

This FAT guy is just an apple fanboy.
Go to flick.com and check it out by yourself.
(Jow Wilvox gallery) poor fat man =( hes just a depressed fat troll.
Keep it up piglet =D

"I don't know of one good Pirate who would be dumb enough to use a piece of s**t like Vista. No self respecting Pirates would use it! Which should say something for the quality of the product itself."

Pirates have self-respect too? How do they justify piracy? Do they think they're Robin Hoods? I'm sure a lot of you believe that too. After all, hatred for Microsoft is rampant here.

Cervantes: Almost you are a winner,it's among the more dirty, lower and vile thing that I have read here.

An apologize for Joe Wilcox, but it's obvious that you're not being objective. You should be talking about .NET technologies, silverlight, tatifi browser, photosynth, etc, instead of wasting time with these topics. It's just an advice.

Joe , you are publishing the comments from the readers as your enty , what a shame !

Are you getting lazier everyday ?

The HR department of Eweek should issue you a letter of caution !

Joe Wilcox
For starters "We culled recent Microsoft Watch comments to find out."
This sentence is totally wrong ... Joe you don't seem to know what a "cull" is mate !
(I think the word that you should have used was "coral", but you wanted to ... in the back of your mind ... cull Vista didn't you Joe)
A cull is when you go out and kill animals to reduce their numbers in the wild.
Also you have got to be joking anyway ! !
The vast majority that comment here are anti MS to start off with, for example Chips, n0ne_n0ne, but name a few. And the funny (not ha ha) thing is that you know it.
Making an article around biased comments is just not on, all you are trying to do is "fan the fire".
Inotherwords Joe you should go to "Aplle watch" where you will be extremely happy, or does going "against" MS at every opportunity make you happy, becasue it damn well seems like it !

I like the twist my cube neighbor writes on my whiteboard:

The OW starts now. Pain from "using" Vista and the wonderful advantages of WGA...

You guys just don't give up do you ??
First it was the UAC and now seeing that that has been taken care of, you are after the WGA.
Now does anyone know that Linux has a similar feature to the UAC ?? Well it has.
Is anyone here going to grumble about that ? ... I doubt it !
You couldn't do that there is nothing wrong with Linux ... or is there !
Someone should objectively have a look at Linux to see, and boy oh boy would they be in for a surprise !
People say that Linux is different to windows ...How ???
If windows was so bad why is Linux so much like Windows ???
Could it be that they ran out of ideas and just said to themselves, "let's do in Unix version of Windows".
If the Unix people were soooo good why didn't they do something completely different that stood by itself and had no similarities to any other OS.
In my view it is just another OS and that's all.

As a reader, we wish to know the current state of affair of Microsoft from publication that focus on the move of Microsoft. As a result , there are numbers of magazines and blogs dedicated to it.

However , it seems Mr Joe Wilcox is bashing Microsoft every second in his column . It makes the whole damn things looks negative.

Remember negative influence and feelings bring us to nowhere .

However, I am still continue to read your column as I try to look into and analyse the state of mind of a negative person like you .

If I ever want to recruit a cheerleader or a motivational course leader for school kids , I will count you out as you carry all the negative feeling around you .

http://www.linuxwins.com/33-german-universities-migrate-to-suse-linux/

The above link is titled: "33 German Universities Migrate to Suse Linux"

Trouble on the home front for Micro$oft?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070828-fsf-microsoft-cant-disavow-gpl-3-obligations.html

Above link is titled: "FSF: Microsoft can't disavow GPL 3 obligations"

Quote from the above article:

"In a response issued today, the FSF argues that Microsoft would be bound to the terms of the GPL 3 if Microsoft causes conveyance of source code licensed under the GPL 3."

For starters "We culled recent Microsoft Watch comments to find out."

This sentence is totally wrong ... Joe you don't seem to know what a "cull" is mate !
(I think the word that you should have used was "coral", but you wanted to ... in the back of your mind ... cull Vista didn't you Joe)
A cull is when you go out and kill animals to reduce their numbers in the wild.

cull vb : to pick out from a group : CHOOSE
cull n : something rejected from a group or lot as worthless or inferior.
Joe's sentence is totally right. Joe does know what "cull" means, and he used it as a verb, not as a noun.
You used cull as a noun. Joe used it as a verb.
And no amount of frothing at the mouth nor displays of complete ignorance can change those facts. But, please feel free to disagree. It's fun to watch a person's effective IQ decrease as their emotional ranting increases.

I live in Mexico and let me tell you that more than 99% of the computers are running under Windows, Does that matter Chips?

First it was the UAC and now seeing that that has been taken care of, you are after the WGA.
Now does anyone know that Linux has a similar feature to the UAC ?? Well it has.
Is anyone here going to grumble about that ? ... I doubt it !

From my long experience with many versions of AIX, several versions of Linux, and almost all versions of Windows since 3.0 (I think I only skipped the Win 98 versions, and haven't seen Vista up close yet), the problem isn't that they both have UAC, but in how it's actually implemented.
In Unix and Linux, UAC is built into the kernel from the ground up. In all versions of Windows (except I do not speak for Vista), UAC was bolted on top of the operating system in various and mostly clumsy ways.
Now, Vista may have done a much better job. I sure hope so. But security isn't something that can be added on: it must be added to the design at the very, very beginning. Did this happen with Vista's UAC? (That's a question, as I do not know.)
It's kind of like, an ox cart has wheels and a Ferrari has wheels, but any similarity ends there.

"I live in Mexico and let me tell you that more than 99% of the computers are running under Windows, Does that matter Chips?"

So that's where the Salvation Army sends those dumpster loads of abandoned PCs!

Pwned, ay caramba!

To continue the UAC thread, does anyone remember the Andrew File System? I do, and it was horrible. It was a bolt-on UAC-enabled file system for Unix, and its poor usability and clumsy implementation were largely because it tried to bolt on UAC instead of designing it into the kernel from the start.
See? UAC can be good if it's designed in from the start, and is usually bad if bolted on as an afterthought. And it has nothing to do with Unix or Linux or Windows per se.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/08/28/2214254.shtml

Titled: Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six

Quote; "In June Apple was responsible for 17.6% of laptops sold (at retail) in the US and is now in third place behind HP and Toshiba."

Is this because Apple is good, or because Vi$ta is as ACER has claim, a disappointment?

Microsoft profit tops Wall St view on Vista sales

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. posted a 65 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, topping Wall Street estimates due to better-than-expected demand for its new Windows Vista operating system.

Shares of Microsoft rose 5 percent after the announcement, in which the world's biggest software company also forecast 2008 profit at the mid-point of a range of analyst estimates.

"The strength of Vista is really driving this," said Kim Caughey, analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. She added that the company had set "manageable expectations for the full year 2008, which generally allows them some headroom."

Microsoft posted a net profit of $4.93 billion, or 50 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal third quarter ended March 31 versus a profit of $2.98 billion, or 29 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

Excluding tax benefits and a legal charge, Microsoft earned 49 cents per share, beating the average analyst forecast of 46 cents, according to Reuters Estimates.

Revenue rose 32 percent to $14.4 billion. Analysts, on average, had forecast revenue of $13.89 billion, with estimates ranging from $13.73 billion to $14.09 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.

Microsoft deferred about $1.7 billion in revenue from its second quarter to its third quarter to account for upgrade coupons given to customers prior to the January launch of Vista and Office 2007.

Microsoft expects the latest versions of its two flagship products to underpin profit growth over the next few years. Those two product lines alone account for more than half of Microsoft's total revenue and a majority of its profits.

Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said consumer sales of Vista surpassed the company's own expectations by $300 million to $400 million.

"There is very good acceptance from a launch perspective for the product. It's early days, but we're encouraged by it," Liddell said in an interview with Reuters.

FORECAST ALLAYS CONCERNS

The company's 2008 business year, which starts in July, will be the first full year of earnings to benefit from consumers buying new computers loaded with Vista and Office 2007, or companies upgrading computer systems.

Microsoft forecast diluted earnings per share of between $1.68 and $1.72 for the coming business year, on revenue of $56.5 billion to $57.5 billion.

Analysts had forecast earnings of $1.69 a share on sales of $56.34 billion, with sales estimates ranging from $55.3 billion to $59.6 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.

"There was a lot of concern in the marketplace over Microsoft's 2008 outlook. We think this forecast should allay these concerns," said Andy Miedler, technology analyst at Edward Jones.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer gave investors a reason to pause in February when he said that some analysts' Vista sales estimates in fiscal 2008 were "overly aggressive."

If it don't do good in Kenya, well, LOL

http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2639&Itemid=5822

Titled: "Consumers still wary of Microsoft’s Vista"

Quotes from the article;

"Vista has not been taken well in this market because of compatibility issues with other software"
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Now where have I heard that before?

http://www.newstatesman.com/200708280002

Article from the link is Titled: "Why pay thousands to restrictive software companies when open source programmes are free, easy to use and green?"

more on green

http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851

Titled; Green Party asks: who has the key to your Vista PC? Green party slams Vista Landfill nightmare

From Mary Jo Foley, Titled;

"Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft"

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=678

Quotes;

"What’s next, I wonder? Will one or more Linux customers or vendors push the issue so that the FSF and/or its members sue Microsoft over this? What’s your guess as to what will happen here?"

courtesy of: cjm LT

...more on green...

Why should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"

America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we borrow so we can spend some more. The people are in hock to consumer credit companies and the nation is pushing bonds to China.

We rarely speak of citizens anymore...we're now consumers.

Money represents energy.

Given the environmental and economic costs (including long term energy availability and cost), an IT sector based on planned obsolescense that emphasizes ongoing consumption of throw away manufactured goods is absurd.

One of the most attractive aspects of GNU/linux is that it redefines short lived,throw away, consumer items as durable goods through rigorous adherence to backwards hardware compatibility on the part of kernel maintainers and several of the mainstream distributions.

And when new hardware is purchased, GNU/Linux permits purchase of hardware resources sized to meet the demands of the load, without the overhead imposed by an overly (and arbitrarily) bloated OS.

Most of us "get" the idea of "free as in beer and free as in speech," but we're overlooking another important factor that could be exploited to boost the rate of adoption of open standards, FOSS, and Gnu/Linux, among governments and other large institutions:

GNU/linux is the environmentally friendly OS.

Computer hardware represents embedded energy. Embedded energy, is the energy derived from fossil fuels, that went into its manufacture.

That is embedded energy that caused greenhouse gas emissions when it was embedded in the hardware we refer to as a computer.

On a Microsoft driven average three year hardware upgrade cycle, that embedded energy is wasted and winds up in a landfill -- and more greenhouse gas is produced to build replacement hardware with its own embedded energy load onboard to be under-utilized over its short service life as a Windows desktop or server.

All but one of the machines I administer at my small business have been "recycled" after I obtained them from other businesses "upgrading" to the lastest version of Windows. The one new machine, I assembled myself, from "new old stock," components five years ago, for use as a terminal server for a LAN of "recycled" PC based Xterminals, and it is only a PIII.

The average age of machines on the LAN I built and maintain is 12 years -- that is four times the fossil fuel embedded energy efficiency of a similarly sized Windows shop running on a Microsoft driven average 3 year hardware upgrade cycle.

Moreover, ever more powerful hardware consumes more and more greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuel in the form of AC utility power. We don't see many new PCs with 250 watt power supplies these days, do we?

The bottom line is this: Windows contributes to global climate change. GNU/Linux is the environmentally friendly and responsible choice.

Promote that to governments and large corporations under pressure to respond to concerns about global climate change and fossil fuel depletion, and there isn't a ready made answer they can provide to justify their continued reliance on Microsoft, Windows, and proprietary standards, that help dictate Windows use by everyone else who interacts with them.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3000193202.html

Titled: "Second-rate Vista has Windows fans looking to Linux"

Quotes:

"Yes, that's right. A loyal Windows user of more than 15-years is throwing in the towel on Vista. You can read his story for why he finds Vista so annoying, but I'll sum it up for you: Vista sucks.

The drivers don't drive, running programs won't run or won't stop running, applications don't apply and networking won't net. I feel his pain.

I keep two copies of Vista Ultimate up so that when I want to compare Vista with a Linux desktop I'm able to actually use Vista so I can make a fair comparison between Vista and its Linux competition. Vista just doesn't cut it."

Chips, .. but Mr Vaughan Nicholas has been a Linux advocator for years . He writes Linux entry everyday. How can he justifies to write something good on Microsoft. The Linux fans will definitely kill him !

At least , he is sincere in a sense that he against Microsoft in his Linux column , not like Joe Wilcox , who against Microsoft in Microsoft Watch

Chips
Here is one quote from the story "At the end of his column, Louderback wrote, "If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
The most important word in this is "MIGHT".
He might do it, and then again he may not !
And as Ron has so rightly pointed out Mr. Nicholas writes for Linux Watch.
Again Chips you are making a story where there is none !!
And link after bloody link, and you reckon I'm on the computer all day.
Lastly this site is getting really over the top when there is a posting by "Enviro-GNU/Linux".
Joe used to say that he was open to opininion but this is ridiculous.
Come back apple people ... Oh I forgot ... they were scared off by the chips and co. out 36 comments 9 were made by Chips alone, and of course his alias's.

Neil Says:
"Lastly this site is getting really over the top when there is a posting by "Enviro-GNU/Linux".

@Neil:|^?)
1. Enviro-GNU/Linux post makes sense to me.
2. WGA makes no sense to me.

With you, it's reverse, maybe?

I don't complaint about MS fighting piracy, they should fight piracy. However making people's OS break, just for the suspicion of it not being 'genuine' is not exactly what I would call a "genuine advantage" of windows. And the thing is, that false positives are always a possibility, and WGA has just showed up it gives false positives, and what's worse, just a downtime in a server can make your OS think it is not genuine anymore...

And to make matters worse, WGA doesn't help against piracy, at all. My pirated XP is "genuine", I was able to download internet explorer 7 , I have already seen people selling vista CDs on the street... (I live in a country in which piracy is normal and mostly the standard)

vista sucks! its bloated, not intuitive and a jazzed up XP with few advantages.

I think the question asked here is if previous OS users were "WOWed" by Vista when they upgraded. And in reading the positive reviews of Vista here, I saw no "WOW." What I saw could be translated to, "Well, it works on my machine." This was perhaps the same reaction Win98SE users had when they upgraded to WinME ... less of a "WOW" and more a sigh of relief.