A quote from the Microsoft marketing-meisters on their forthcoming OS, Windows Vista (formerly known as Longhorn)

"That's what Windows Vista is about, bringing clarity to the world. . ."

PR people . . . taking hyperbole to a whole new level.

When the blue-screen-o-death comes up with this puppy, does that mean the universe will end?

 

sounds like it to me!!!

 

What is this 'blue screen of death' you're talking about? I remember a friend mentioning something like that with his Win95 but I'm running XP and haven't seen a 'blue screen of death' in the two years I've owned it. Why are you bashing a company based on old issues that have been resolved?

 

im runnin sp2 and ive been gettin win32.sys errors while browsing the forums about once a day its been freezing up with blue screen of death

 

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If only they would get it resolved .. someday before I die ..

 

I too have been running XP for over 2 years and not one issue. Also have IE and have had no issues with it at home or work…

 

"That's what Windows Vista is about, bringing clarity to the world. . ."

Hey, that's what I'm about, too! Is Windows Vista copying me, or is he my long lost twin?

My method is to bring clarity one person at a time. Maybe this big-shot Windows Vista can clarify the world all at once with a snap of his fingers.

 

Evidently you missed the point.

This wasn't about the "blue-screen-o-death" (that was a quick appendage intended as a joke to emphasize the absurdity of the subject).

What my post was about was how inane the statement, that a computer operating system will bring clarity to the world, was.

You don't really believe that an operating system, regardless which OS it is, will actually bring clarity to the world, do you? (I don't know, maybe you do, since you seemed to miss that part and jumped straight to defending microsoft, assuming this was an attack against them).

I don't care if it's Mac, MS, Linux, or whatever . . . it's a computer operating system for christ's sake . . . it isn't going to bring clarity to the world.

And by the way, they ALL crash at one point or another. So here's the joke part of it . . . if an OS really was that grand in scope, and really could bring clarity to the world, if it crashed (insert favourite term to describe a crash in relation to whichever OS it is) wouldn't that mean all clarity would cease, therefore causing collapse of that world? Since Microsoft was foolish enough to make such a claim, I used the term (b-s-o-d) most often recognized as a crash that is associated with their OS . . . since they are the ones who made the claim. If Jobs or Torvalds had been stupid enough to make such a claim, I would have tailored the joke to apply to their system.

 

The computer industry people are full of themselves, thats for sure. Remember Larry Ellison's challenge a couple of years ago...."Oracle is un-hackable...go ahead, try". Every Oracle database administrator must have cringed at that moment, because here come the attacks. By the way, turns out Oracle was hackable...still is today.

However, if an OS were to bring clarity to the world, and then it blue-screened, couldn't that clarity be restored with a re-boot?

 

I too havent had a problem and i have been using it since 2002.