Release Candidate 1

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If you try search engine hits, Raven, there are a lot on that book--also any
place that sells them has a number of interesting comments Amazon, etc.

I have a collection of books on MSFT and a few on the early days of
computers, the scrambling, the partying, the stealing--all pretty
interesting.

CH
 
Vista should be renamed Apathy. Sinofsky would put a dead chicken in a box
and call it Windows Vista.

I still see no reason why they can't make the bugs public--no one would
argue MSFT doesn't have access to Virtual Servers, Sql Servers, Cluster
servers, Longhorn servers--sort them, context them--they have
obsessively--and share the same access to bugs with public that Beta testers
have or stop the charade for the public to report bugs.

Pure and simple public Betas for Windows Operating Systems are part of
Sales. That's the reason they are there. MSFT doesn't give a damn how well
the OS is used or how knowledgable the user is, and what most people don't
seem to notice is their is damn little documentation on Vista on the site.

Not one decent article on SFC, Win RE, System Restore. Their are
superficial little paragraphs on them. And I'll tell ya Win RE is not
working a huge percent of the time. In that ancient OS long ago, called Win
XP I can make a repair install from retail Media not the OEM named partner
crap that MSFT pretends works fix Windows every single time--unless
relatively rare situations--destroyed partitions or less common situations
like a Linux bootloader in a multi or dual boot which will block setup in a
repair install.

That Win RE is not working well is a big deal. That MSFT is apathetic about
it and many other things (Mario Rosario said it well--they are fixing
selected bugs, they are not innovating features or fixing big issues now or
ever) is sad.

I would characterize this beta as the most apathetic beta teams with the
biggest promotional budget in the history of Windows. A damn sad way for
Jim Allchin to do his last innings running Windows.

And sadly, Allchin probably forgets more about Windows every 10 minutes
than Steve Sinofsky every knew in his life. Sinofsky is not a knowledgable
Windows maven. Sinofsky would put a dead hamster in a box and call it
Vista. That's a fact.

CH
 
May I add, an operating system is really pretty complex system, it is
amazing that it even works at all. Try organizing 45 million lines of
sofisticated instructions as well as the people that works on it.
 
They have a couple thousand people with a huge ancillary support staff to
get it done who are strung out on the campus with very long non-intuitive
names for some of their teams. There are hundreds of Vista teams. They
have a $100 million partner promo advertising budget for Vista and a $500
million general advertising budget for Vista.

They have been told by anything that moves to back Vista's release date up a
few months (6 would be optimal) and if they're smart they will.

They have already considerably alterned their budget and cut a large number
of innovations that were originally planned for Vista. Ballmer spoke
cryptically of this at the annual finaincial meeting at Redmond while
providint no substantive detail It would have been transparent with and
educational for his customers to do so.

MSFT is trying to organize those lines and they haven't succeeded; they have
hired outside debuggers at 3 grand to 4 grand per day including people who
used to work for them and have gone ontoother things.

CH
 
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