Vista is Torture
Apparently, Dell customers would prefer the shovel.
Tags: Comedy, Comics, funny, Software, vista, windows
May 3, 2007 | Filed Under Comedy, Comics, Software | 5 CommentsGoogle Maps Hates Windows
Google Maps pulls in related images for locations. Check out what they pull in for Microsoft.
Since Google Maps pulls images from organic search, I’m sure this image is not an editorial choice on their part. It’s still damn funny, considering their internal use of Ubuntu and rumors of the coming Google OS.
(Via Alt Nerd.)
Ballmer Throws Chair at Third World for Low Vista Sales
See, this is what happens when you get lazy, delay your product, and lose your OS monopoly in a three-way battle with Linux and OS X. You start going nuts again.
Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved ‘overly optimistic’ and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.
He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.
Hey, Steve-o, here’s a hint: instead of making your DRM even more obtrusive to legitimate users, how about you actually give people really good reasons to give you wads and wads of their money? Even anime schoolgirls know how that works.
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