Smart ones !

The new ads too pack a punch !!

Thanks happyandyk!

I'm a PC! I'm using Windows Vista! :)

Microsoft is Back!

Nice ADS, Now we don't have to think what it means.

You might consider changing the 1650x1050 to 1680x1050 which a standard laptop screen resolution these days for 15.4" screens.

Very nice. I was looking for wallpaper of this ad last night. The new ads are simply awesome. Thanks.

Cool. Downloaded.

Great job!  You should upload these to WinCustomize as well.  :)

I like a lot the "Heroes" look of this ad image. :-)

I'm a PC, and I just got rid of Windows. I know that my decision-making abilities and judgment are inferior to those of the average user, since I've been satisfied with Vista for over a year until I took a hard look at the reality of Vista adoption, as well as what people are saying on the blogs.

I think it's the beginning of the end of Microsoft... A few years from now PC's won't even have OSes with which users will interact... They'll be more like dumb terminals with Chrome pre-loaded on a stripped-down Linux or OSX... I've long refused the notion that "the next OS will be the Internet itself" But now I believe it... Even though I don't personally enjoy coding in "Postel-compliant" HTML + JS with tons of hacks + a copy'n'paste style, that's the way of the future. That's precisely why Silverlight ain't takin' off. No one needs a VM running in a browser when there's JS, HTML and document.write(). That idea has been dead since MS tried to push Java.

DRM is also a failing technology, and it's the only reason behind the introduction of Vista. Everyone else is just a facade. It appears that, while the average user might be easy to fool (like me before I ditched Vista and the folks in the Mojave Experiment), Microsoft has grossly "misunderestimated" the collective brain of the Internet community.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm

ExDotNetter, I don't quite follow your connection with Windows Vista and DRM. I also am pretty sure that the "only reason behind the introduction of Vista" was not DRM. You should read Ed Bott's blog post about DRM and the FUD about DRM + Vista:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1762

Thanks for the comment!

- Brandon

I'm a PC, and I just reinstalled Windows Vista... People hate it but it gets the job done. We have an odd VPN at work, and I felt I didn't have enough time on my hands to tweak the VPN config on Linux... just like the first time I switched over. Productivity over principle. I'm becoming a bit of a pragmatic, apathetic, "Git-R-Done" PC...

Speaking of DRM, after all the rumors I had heard before, I actually got relieved when I installed the OS. It turned out to have much less DRM than I had expected. A lot of the horror stories I heard in the early 00s were completely untrue.

They said: You won't be able to install another OS.

Reality: Linux ran just fine in dual-boot mode and even in MS Virtual PC 2007. I could even launch it from a MyBook drive.

They said: You won't be able to play or copy DRM-free content.

Reality: I ripped all the CDs that I own and put them in my Music folder. I also made a whole bunch of copies for my car. No hassle, no restrictions. Every once in a while, I stream them from my XBox.

They said: You will only be able to run applications that have been signed and authorized by Microsoft.

Reality: You can sign applications just like you put an SSL cert on a Web site to assure your customers that the page is actually coming from you and not from some scammer/spammer who created an identical copy of your page. If an app is unsigned, all you get is a scary-looking pop-up.

WMA files can come both with and without DRM, and some services like Napster let you remove the DRM for a fee (the Internet equivalent of buying a CD)

DRM is a hot issue these days, but since I ain't no left-winger, I don't object to the technology per se... It depends on how it's used. And I think if it's applied properly, it might actually increase competition in the music distribution market because artists will be able to work with much smaller record labels and publish music directly on the Internet. And I don't download any pirated content of software from Gnutella (LimeWire) or BitTorrent. But that's just me...

In reality, the Vista woes everyone is so gung-ho about somehow bypassed me. Here are the issues I experienced personally:

1) Problems with VS 2005 Express - SP1 is required, and even with SP1, you can't open files directly from Windows Explorer.

Resolution: VS 2008 Express.

2) TortoiseSVN used to crash Windows Explorer about every couple of hours (when heavily used)

Resolution: TortoiseSVN 1.5.x... They finally fixed those bugs.

3) Hibernate went away...

Resolution: This was a Dell issue, not a Windows issue... The Hibernate option was removed by Dell's power management updates. An MS tech support specialist brought it back by typing something in the command line.

4) Old JavaScript debuggers won't run because of permission adjustments (MS Script Debugger / Script Editor)

Resolution: Use Visual Web Developer to debug in IE, FireBug to debug in FieFox.

5) Very minor: unzipping files would take a while before SP1. With SP1, unzipping is zippy.

6) A few blue screens from a third-party VPN driver.

Resolution: This seems to have been partially fixed by SonicWall. Blue screens are very rare now.

Other than that, it's been just as stable as any other Windows NT (2k, XP), and way more stable than 9x... I don`t really believe it to be the buggiest Windows ever.

Honestly, there`s only one thing I hate about Vista... I HATE THE FACT THAT EVERYONE HATES IT. I wish I could have the same "pride of ownership" of my laptop and the tools I use that I would've had a few years back... And it`s annoying to hear people scream "VISTA SUCKS" from behind my back the first time they see me working on my laptop... and try hard not to laugh when I try to extend PHP ".net-style" (by re-coding some of the little features I miss from .net like IXmlSerializable, for example)

How about y'all release a Service Pack that will actually go ahead and rename it to Mojave? (just joking)

ExDotNetter, great to see you back on Windows Vista. Neat comment by the way.

- Brandon

I'm a PC, and I don't use Microsoft products.

My email sig states:

Ubuntu (logo here) Life without Windows

I customized my Ubuntu sustem so that it looks and feels like a Macintosh.

Now I have the best of both worlds without the bad of both worlds.

Open Source Rules!!

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