Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

RonV — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:49:31 GMT

Reply to Jackskellington

Jack

There are some very good tutorials on the internet on how to surf websites and find what you are looking for. On the Dell website, in the Search Box at the top of the home page, enter Windows XP. The first link in the results will take you here:

Dell Inspiron Desktops With Windows XP:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/winxp_inspndt?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1

There is a link at the bottom of that page that will take you here:

Dell Inspiron Laptops With Windows XP:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/winxp_inspnnb?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Also, teach your brother how to shop and do a bit of research before he makes a decision on what to buy. Are you sure he's ready for college?

oOPS, THEY FORGOT TO INCLUDE SOMEBODY IN THE vISTA rtm BOOKLET

Spyware Sucks — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:32:55 GMT

On 30 January 2007 Larry Osterman and Nick White blogged about the shipping gifts distributed at Microsoft

re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

vistahater — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:20:04 GMT

I think it is good punishment for the team who worked on the vista project to have to use a machine with vista. I refuse to be duped by microsoft any longer. This is the last machine that I buy with a microsoft product on it. Any company that sends out machines with operating systems that are non-operating systems should be shut down. It is a case for false advertising. I own several "legal" copies of microsoft office, front page, windows 98, winxp and vista. They are available for yardsale. They aren't worth a quarter. Buyer Beware.

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Michael_Moor — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:08:11 GMT

thank you for your working hard.

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re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

bham4ever — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:38:14 GMT

Congrats to all. The release a product Vista is a milestone in itself if people thing back to DOS and what we had..just 20 years have passed and the progress has been awesome. I'm a gamer and love what Vista has to offer for now and the future!

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Eamonn Holmes — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:21:33 GMT

Great to see you are rewarded for producing such a turkey. Vista sucks! Microsoft's death rattle.

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ForeverDestiny — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:57:30 GMT

jackskellington- I have had windows vista premium and i have had the exact opposite experience. Everything connected with ease and also the wirless network connected without a problem. Maybe it was ur dell laptop that was messed up. Windows cannot controle if it can or cannot connect to the network. If it cant see it then that means that 1. your to far away or 2. your wirless card is totaly messed up. Anyways that dose not appear to be a vista problem but maybe your unlucky in that case.

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zune — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:43:17 GMT

it is very good!I also thank you for your working hard.

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someone — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:16:23 GMT

With all due respect, Larry Osterman's MSDN blog should be about audio technologies in Vista and giving out maximum info to people but it's just the opposite. Rarely does he blog about audio stuff.

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jackskellington — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:01:01 GMT

Boy do I have a story for you! I just found out that my brother purchased a laptop from Dell, to take with him when he goes to college in September (yeah, it's kinda early, but he wanted to pay it off before he left). Not only did he purchase a laptop from Dell, but it had Windows Vista Home Basic on it. I discussed with him, the importance of seeking advice before purchasing these items, as he seemed quite unpleased with Windows Vista. We talked a bit more, and I found out that Dell's website does not allow you to select Windows XP (any version) anymore, as a choice of operating system; he wanted to select Windows XP Pro, as that's what I've told him to use in the past. I went to Dell's website to "order" a laptop of my own, and it's true. You can only select from Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business (please keep in mind, this is for an Inspiron home/home business laptop). My brother has read nothing about Windows Vista, so I showed him the Apple commercial Tom sent out the other day via e-mail. My brother completely agreed with what the commercial was saying about Windows Vista... and he's only had the laptop for ONE DAY! On top of it, he was begging me to install Windows XP Pro... but I wanted a chance to play with Vista, so I told him I'd do it later.

Well, that's not all of it... I sat down to connect Windows Vista to my secured wireless network at my parents house, and it wouldn't connect. It wouldn't allow me to manually specify SSID (as it was hidden), WEP key, etc., so I added a wireless network profile. One would think that setting this as a preferred network would work, right? Nuh uh... it still didn't see the wireless network. So I thought I would start over and disable/enable the device. I was able to disable the device, but when I enabled it, Windows did not recognize the device. It's like it never existed. All wireless options were disabled, and the "Dell Wireless Network Manager" was complaining about being installed and no wireless device was available. Ugh... so I tried disabling and enabling again, with no luck. I finally resolved to rebooting the machine. After a reboot, the wireless device was available and low and behold, I was able to "Manually Connect to A Secured Wireless Network"! I quickly entered the details so I could stop having to deal with Vista, it was quickly getting annoying with the Allow or Cancel messages. I went to click Next so I could connect to my wireless and "BAM!", it popped up with an error message that stated, "Wireless name is already in use. Would you like to use the existing one or specify another?" Grrr... I clicked "Use Existing One" and it took me back to the screen I had started at. I tried it as many times as possible, even after removing the profile I added, thinking it was referring to that. After 20 more minutes of attempting to make it connect to a hidden, secured, wireless network, I gave up. In the end, I was more frustrated with the constant nagging of "Allow or Cancel" than I was with the fact that Vista was broken and wouldn't connect.

I see this as a foreboding into the future; users will get frustrated and either a) begin using Apple, b) install Linux desktops, or, c) wipe the HDD and install their old version of Windows XP.

Oh well... just wanted to pass on my experience with Vista for all to read.

Regards,

Jack

re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

newscientist2000 — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:23:49 GMT

I havent checked that site myself ... however I'ld be doubtfull, the above link may lead you to a spam site or may download a trojan/virus to your computer.

re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

glaeken — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:42:09 GMT

Congratulations! Its good to have one's efforts recognized.

I'm working for customer service, consumer support and for every top box that we got for our QoS (surveys from the customers) we do get goodies. Small but meaningful, not every call is a good call so every appreciation that we received is meaningful.

How about for the Office 2007 team, did they get similar award as well?

re: Ship-It Awards presented to the Product Team

newscientist2000 — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:02:08 GMT

Im glad you work for a company that appreciates your hard work, the company I work for sometimes gives us small gifts covered with the company logo when we achieve major milestones either personally or as a company.

Although sometimes these gifts aren't always that usefull it is the thought that counts, particularly with so many people working these days in jobs where it is hard to directly see the results of your hard work.. it is nice to have a physical reminder of the hard work you have done.

Congrats to all.

Did the Office 2007 Team get a similar reward?