Unfun times at Microsoft

[jducoeur]

Whee. The combination of slipping the next version of Windows and a nicely anonymous blog have let loose an impressive burst of internal vitriol. If you're in the mood for some schadenfreude at Microsoft's expense, it's worth a dig through, especially the comments.

(And may I just note that "schadenfreude" was not in my vocabulary until ladysprite introduced me to the Avenue Q soundtrack? Just goes to show that the Sesame Street paradigm of education is still sound today...)

Comments

"schadenfreude"

[cheshyre]

I used to read the Dr. Laura newsgroup, so the word was in my vocabulary, but I couldn't pronounce it or spell it until the song...

Useful term, isn't it?

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Lewis Black sez: "Schadenfreude: it's a German word, but I like it!"

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

The Internet is for porn."

[(Anonymous)]

I picked up the word in the course of discussions on game theory and design, as it's a fairly common word bandied around the modern German/Euro game design community.

Rather useful word, actually.

Schadenfreude

[metageek.livejournal.com]

It also shows up in an early Simpsons episode.

Re: Schadenfreude

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

That may be where I first ran across it, though it's been a part of my vocabulary for a while. A couple of times after Avenue Q came out but before I'd heard it I used the term and didn't understand why people thought I was refering to the musical.

[(Anonymous)]

Read that blog posting and more. Vista is garbage... but I didn't need to read the post to understand that. After pulling feature after feature, you're left with a shallow attempt to "innovate" by trying to deliver something that "looks like" Mac OS X. With the dual-booting hacks on MacTel machines, paired with the rumor that Apple will have future hardware and the next rev of OS X able to support simulataneous boots (like Classic and OS X now, only with Linux or Win2000, or XP, etc), and the slight chance that Apple licenses OS X... it could be a serious kick in the Balmer/Gates crotch that so many would love to see.

MS keeps disappointing. I guess this is the fruit of their monopololistic ways... having to support so much legacy crud that its bogged everything down. Who is gonna have the hardware to even run Vista? The whole thing is a big fat joke. Nothing wrong with Win2000... so many don't even need XP. .Net has been a flop, passport has been a flop, MS search is a joke, Vista (Longwait) will just be a really expensive flop. Oh well.

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[jducoeur]

Actually, I don't think that the problem is inherent in the monopolism per se. Rather, it's the downside of their fanatical attachment to back-compatibility. I can understand that attachment: people have investments in zillions of dollars of software that runs on the older OSes. But it makes them unwilling to make the sort of clean break that Apple did, and that *does* bog down the process horribly...

testing 1 2 3

[edolecki.livejournal.com]

testing 1 2 3 with a livejournal account

Re: testing 1 2 3

[jducoeur]

Welcome to the club. Glad to see you have an account -- if nothing else, attributed comments are always preferable to anonymous one...