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Podcast - Apple Report: Vista (it doesn't suck...)
by , 9:00 AM EDT, March 17th, 2007
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Have we got a slogan for you! "Windows Vista: it doesn't suck." Microsoft's newest OS release has been out for more than a month now, and it increasingly looks no better than "not bad." The problem is that average isn't cutting it in an industry that thrives on innovation, novel features, and a quick upgrade cycle. In this week's Context Machine, a look at how Vista is becoming the albatross of the PC industry.
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:37 am Subject:
Guest #2: I suggest you read a bit of Coleridge - to have "an albatross around the neck" as metaphor is not the loss of a good luck charm but the acquiring of a burden or an obstacle. There's nothing like a bit of the classics. In fact sailors often killed and ate albatrosses, but thought of them as the souls of dead sailors.
I believe that Vista will prove to be as much of an albatross around our collective neck as XP is.
And as for Guest #1 - your argument is odd, and wrong. It is indeed possible that Vista doesn't suck. But good enough isn't good enough.
Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:13 pm Subject: The Whine of the Modern MicroSofter
QuoteGuest wrote:
The Albatross was a ship's good luck charm until some idiot killed it. So unless Vista is dead, you might want to think of a different analogy.
After 5 years, and a lot of money, MicroSoft should have produced an OSX killer instead of killing their own good luck charm.
However, perhaps Guest #4 is correct, maybe "good enough" is good enough for most of the personal computer users. I buy $14 jeans at Costco instead of $50 Levis because they are good enough for me, but if I needed more durable denim then maybe I would opt for the heavier 501 Levis.
Back in my navy days I remember leaving port and an albatross would start crisscrossing our wake looking for food. It hardly ever flapped its wings it just soared on what ever air currents lifted it. Every morning the first thing I did when coming up on deck was to look for the albatross. Reliably it would be there and then I felt that everything was alright. Quite often we would not stop at Pearl Harbor, or other ports, all the way across the Pacific and I don't think that the bird ever rested. it was always on our wake.
"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
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