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first? i hate windows. they are stupid

Wow, I must unload all my AAPL stock now before it is too late.

Dec 12, 07 - 06:25 pm Comment from: Randian

And I'd wager a first-born child that "Vienna" will STILL be compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP, PDQ, DOA, and SNAFU applications.

Right? Sure hope so, for THAT, ladies and gents, is MicroSloth's Achilles Heel.

i run into them all the time... the windows, that is... oh yeah, and stupid attempts at an OS.

Yes, I knew it was only a matter of time before Apple got blown away by Mircosoft

Dec 12, 07 - 06:27 pm Comment from: tmsruge

Yeah, I prefer doors! Much better!

"Code-named Vienna". Just like the delicate after dinner cookies?

Dec 12, 07 - 06:28 pm Comment from: Tommyr

Windows....ROTFLMAO!!!! LOL! Oh my side! LOL!!!! Please....stop it! ROTFLMAO!!!!

Dec 12, 07 - 06:28 pm Comment from: standardmess

No further comments needed!

Just wait a turd that does the touching...

Gee now that's WOW Bill... scary but wow!

I hate to burst Microsoft's bubble, but the only way for Windows to win is if the new version of Windows drops legacy support. Otherwise, good luck.

Windows Vista successor, codenamed "Vienna," will include new multi-touch features.

And by the time it's released, Apple will be operating with ESP. Multi-touch is so 00's.

What are the talking about? MY WINDOWS VISTA BOX ALREADY HAS A TOUCH INTERFACE.....

http://www.freewebs.com/justsayin/myVista.jpg

Dec 12, 07 - 06:38 pm Comment from: Hm...

Well, M$ has used that ole huntin' dog of "just wait, we're doing such great things you can't imagine" so many times that even the most rabid Windows fanbois are starting to doubt.

But what better comic material can be found?

I don't see how Mirosoft can do multi-touch, as Apple has patented the heck out of it.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/patents/apples-gesture-dictionary-a-fingering-chart-for-multi+touch-285176.php

The only thing from Microsoft that could blow us Mac users away is its corporate flatulence.

Talk about vapourware!

Dec 12, 07 - 06:45 pm Comment from: Chuck U Farley

Forward thinking Microsoft.
"In ten years we will have what the other guys have now."
The sad thing is, all the Lemmings will fall for it.

Dec 12, 07 - 06:46 pm Comment from: Ampar

I would think that the next version after Vista would be named Lost Horizons.

Dec 12, 07 - 06:51 pm Comment from: R

It's too cool how the roles have been reverses. MS devotees, despite their obvious blindness, are now reminiscent of Apple users circa 1996. Sadly for MS praisers, the past glory was not due to technological prowess, but a business coupe. Their Phoenix will not rise from the ashes. 'Tis a pity.

Dec 12, 07 - 06:52 pm Comment from: paladin

two windows and a cup.

FUD ATTACK! It's a classic Microsoft tactic. It's the same freeze-the-market ploy that once worked by destroying Go computers. If you recall that story, a little company by the name of Go came up with an operating system for PDAs that was very advanced at the time. Microsoft responded with a press release saying that "Pen Windows" was on the way. Soon. There was just one problem: "Pen Windows" was vaporware. But Microsoft was so powerful at the time that one press release basically nuked Go. Sad.

Fast-forward to the present. Microsoft, big though the company may be, has a deep loss of credibility. Pushing out a blog might moisten the pants of the pundits suckling on the teats of Redmond for their income and dedicated fanboys. But a growing body of businesspeople and consumers aren't taking Microsoft's shill and FUD at face value any longer. Given all the hype and promises several years back when Microsoft first talked about Longhorn, only to see, many years hence, that the result was Vista damaged its street cred.

Apple is not a stationary target. Hockey great Wayne Gretzky never passed the puck to where his teammates were, but instead passed it to where he knew they WOULD be. In a similar vein, if the Microsoft blogger believes that Apple's touch or other operating system features for the iPhone will stay as they are now and never improve, Microsoft will continue to be zigging while Apple is zagging.

The same day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in the palm of his hand, Microsoft triumphantly introduced Surface, which used a ton of moving parts to display gesture technology on a table costing many thousands of dollars. The iPhone is in the hands of millions of people, and the Surface table is still um, in development.

To its credit, Microsoft has many smart minds working in product development and research. And candidly, the Surface technology demo was fairly slick. But the same could be said for the engineers and stylists at General Motors. Despite many brilliant people under one roof, the net result is often cumbersome, deeply compromised and behind the curve. The problem: top management and bureaucracy.

Apple has succeeded not only by brilliant industrial, hardware and software design, but also by having management that does not get in the way. Apple has become a large ship that is also incredibly nimble. The same can't be said for the battleship Microsoft.

To the Microsoft blogger I say this: prove it. Bring it, fat man. Show me the money. Your FUD won't do it any more. If your next version of Windows is anything like Vista, I will only say, Goodnight Vienna.

Dec 12, 07 - 06:53 pm Comment from: DogGone

All I can say is 190!!

I'm getting my ten-foot pole ready now.

Help me understand this logic...

Microsoft is claiming that their NEXT operating system that's due out in a few to several years from now will blow away an operating system on a phone that's currently out....but will be by then OUTDATED itself....

So basically MS is saying, in 5 years, their next version of the OS will kick the but of an OS that is now a five years old...

Gee....what a win for MS...

I know I'm not the smartest apple in the bunch but even that logic escapes me that someone would be gloating over their product going head to head with an outdated product...

The next Windows Touch OS is controlled by your "Vienna" Wiener....

Microsoft usually gets it right on the the third version. However, they are chasing a moving target. By the time Vienna (and its mobile version, Schnitzel) comes out, no one will care.

A friend of mine wrote to tell me that he had a catastrophic Windows crash that deleted important data. He's getting a Mac. He's so mad he said that upgrading from XP to Vista is like getting rescued from the Titanic by the Hindenburg.

I've been laughing all day.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:07 pm Comment from: ken1w

Excellent Microsoft... The next version of Windows five or six years from now will "blow away" today's iPhone interface.

That's typical Microsoft business practice. Windows 95 was a bad copy of "Mac OS 85." Last year's Zune was a bad copy of the first iPod from five plus years earlier. Windows Vista was a bad attempt to superficially appear to be Mac OS X 10.0. And now, a Microsoft engineer is boasting that "Windows 7" in five or six years is going to be better than today's iPhone GUI and not run on a "big ass table." In five or six years, Apple will probably have a holographic display.

Also, in the time it takes to get Windows 7 out the door, more and more regular Joe and Jane consumers will get fed up with Windows Vista and become Mac users.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:08 pm Comment from: Jubei

Ummm I don't know about you "guys" but I don't think I would be comfortable playing with Microsofts "Vienna" on my DELL. Another typical MS announcement of over the top claims. When they ship it, yeah it will have touch. That will be 2012, oh wait, they are starting from scratch with basic Windows code. That will be 2015.

Microsoft, always promising, never delivering.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:20 pm Comment from: Roberto

@ Ryan,
Did you have a grilled crack sandwich for lunch?

Dec 12, 07 - 07:20 pm Comment from: iamdj

TOUCH and SQUIRT!

Dec 12, 07 - 07:22 pm Comment from: Woody

I like me some Viener Sausages!

Hello I'm Realist. Macs are superior, er Macs suck.

Er, never mind.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:25 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Wow, Microsoft. Promises and MORE promises. I can hardly wait!

How much did they promise for Vista? How much was slashed in order to get it out the door... more than 3 years late. How much was actually delivered?

Microsoft's 1980's feint and scare tactics just don't cut it today. The world KNOWS their routine. The problem is that MS has failed to learn... from the marketplace, from the industry, from their users, from competitors, from toothless monopoly "penalties" of the DoJ and the EU... OR, most importantly, from their own mistakes and miscalculations.

Microsoft's visionary ideas of the technological future are a joke. Everyone but MS seems to know it!

Dec 12, 07 - 07:26 pm Comment from: John Crawford

I liked that, Gavron!

John

Dec 12, 07 - 07:27 pm Comment from: LorD1776

'Blown Away' by Paris Hilton Locke. On sale at Amazon.

"I don't see how Mirosoft can do multi-touch, as Apple has patented the heck out of it."

By the time Microsoft gets the new OS out, Apples patents have already gone to history... Patents are so time-limited!

...key word....blow

2007: After seven years and 6 billion dolars, Miocrosoft releases a chrome-plated turd.
2021: After 14 years and 60 billion dollars, Microsoft will release more chrome-plated vapourware.
But migod, the features!...

Dec 12, 07 - 07:31 pm Comment from: smackman

I can not WAIT to hear Ballmer's interview when/if that ever comes out. "$600 for a phone?" haha.

Hey MDN, could you guys put the Ballmer + Gates "Your Frustration. Our Fault" graphic up again? It's been too long.

Never has desperation been so apparent. Promise the Earth because who is going to remember in 3 years time eh. Sounds more and more like the empty promises of morally bankrupt politicians where truth is sacrificed for short term gain, but then that is precisely what Microsoft has become, such is the power they have claimed for themselves, and unfortunately presented to them by the real masters of the art.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:45 pm Comment from: Grifterus

Well.. that won't happen in like.... 7 years or something, right?

Perhaps by then, Apple will have the cursor controlled by the power of the mind.

Microsoft, and the "Software Test Engineer and blogger Hilton Locke" just said it all, "I will say that if you are impressed by the 'touch features' in the iPhone"

What he wanted to say was "We at Microsoft are so impressed by the 'touch feature' in the iPhone" we should just give up.

Dec 12, 07 - 07:55 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

How surreal is it that a company called Microsoft comes out with a product called Vienna, as in the tiny little sausage? Does anybody at that company even think before they name a product, even if it is for internal use?

New version of Windows will be better than a stripped down mobile version of OS X. A little like saying that they'll produce a desktop OS that is more robust than Windows ce. No?

Dec 12, 07 - 08:03 pm Comment from: Petey

"cough" "bullshit" "cough".

Dec 12, 07 - 08:06 pm Comment from: BiZarRo BaLlmEr

This guy should touch something else , maybe it'll clear his thoughts.

sweet they're making me wait until 2010 so i can poke around in a piece of crap... wait I can just go next door and do that now, screw you Microsoft

wow u guys hunt in packs, swarming his blog with harsh comments. He probably deserved it though. There's no shame bigger than being a test engineer at MS. And to compare a product due circa 2010 with one out now... the wow does start now... ahahaha

ps. as tempting as it was, i decided not to post on his blog, it doesn't give mac users a good impression