Vista doesn't suck any more than Leopard. They both suck.

Bottom line is the PR departments of both companies. Seems as though the PR dept of Microsoft isn't too bright. No wonder apple is starting to dominate...just give them a few more years, they'll be number 1 if Microsoft doesn't turn around.

In the Mean time I'll be playing with Ubuntu!

nosauten

Thats pretty funny it is a nice change because usually yuotube comments are made by 4-year old retards who make it impossible to understand them. I'm surprised the page isn't filled with "go to www.xxx.yyy for vista porn downloads! im a hot 18 year old who wants to strip for you!" reading you tube comments make me want to kill myself cause it's almost always retards, spammers, or those douchebags who say "poot dis coment on 5 mor vidoes an pres alt+F4 ti hav ur troo luves name apper on teh scren! trost my it warks IM TOTLY SRSLY" (spelling mistakes intentional if you didn't notice) though those people qualify as retards they are a different breed of retard who are complete assholes and in my opinion deserve to die. If you are one of these people then let me tell you that the entire internet HATES you and you are worthless piles of shit
/rambling 'bout what annoys me

mferrari

Selam to all.

Can't we put aside our OS religious differences for just one month a year?

ideaman2020

@israeli: Caps Lock is Cruise Control for Cool™

chrisvick

@AndrewJayPollack: Every new iteration of Microsoft's operating system assumes the user is dumber than ever before.

Of course, the first computer I ever used was an IBM mainframe that ate punch cards, so maybe I have a different perspective on computer "progress."

infmom

@andrewjaypollack..

wtf are talking about?

dvda

Take a look at the age listing. "25 years"

Mr.Purple

What I wonder is, did they pay someone to make these "informative" videos? Isn't youtube flooded with videos that tell you how to do shit, and not need to spend more than 30 seconds downloading Firefox, Skype, Thunderbird... etc. OpenOffice...

Fuck em - give 'em hell!

electrikecho

@oyumurtaci: HAHAHAHA THANKS LOL.
IVE NEVER BEEN TO TURKEY BUT IM SURE WOMEN THERE ARE NOT TO BAD EITHER.

OH, AND THE REASON IM WRITING LIKE THIS IS BECAUSE MY CAPS BUTTON IS BROKEN.

israeli

@AndrewJayPollack: Well put.

strider_mt2k

Had apple done something like this it would have shown it is a community minded company that is open to it's user base.

However since it is microsoft it is a horrible idea, and should be critized both here and on it's channel- Shame on Microsoft for trying to do something different!

multipleshotsfired

vista........ hahahahahahaha...... hah

ImTheKing

Vista is the first operating system ever designed, so far as I know, with the specific goal of limiting the owner of the machine.

Other operating systems provide security, and different levels of access -- but there's always a "root" or superuser method somewhere to get around it.

Not Vista. Vista=XP+DRM -- it is designed at its core to prevent you from copying media you do not own. In doing this, the complexity of the system is magnitudes higher and the likelihood that you will run into problems dealing with media you DO own all the rights to is very high.

All this, and of course Microsoft will ultimately be unsuccessful in true enforcement of the DRM as there is no way to update something as big as Vista quickly enough to keep ahead of the crackers out there.

In their attempt to be the golden-boy of the RIAA member companies, they've pissed off their market (personal computer USERS) and still failed to achieve the result of providing those RIAA members a truly "safe" platform.

On top of all that, its original goal was to have a full "database" organized file system (remember Longhorn?). They failed with that as well.

Vista is a nightmare of a bastard child offspring from XP and DRM; it will ultimately be bypassed as technology and products march forward. Years from now, it will be looked at like Windows ME.

AndrewJayPollack

Haha! That's amazing! Poor Microsoft. When will they ever learn? If you don't like what people are posting about you, then delete their comments and pretend they never existed.

:)

DW

@akmed:

You're doing it wrong, in any case, you were probably looking at the first listing which is WAN Miniport, plz scroll down to the wireless adapter moran.

Mac Addresses, Let me show you it (below)

Windows + R, type cmd

type ipconfig /all

The best solution for your network? Turn on WPA-TKIP or WPA-AES and forget about using MAC Address enforcement as it is a pain in the ass.

Syndication

@israeli: Yes I'm Turksih, and no in Arabic it is actually 'selam 'ün aleyküm' as well as in Turkish. By the way, I must say Israeli women are some of the hottest I've met...

oyumurtaci

lol, i have XP and my friend brought over his Vista laptop (HP)

now, to access to my internet, he needs to register his Mac Adress to my router. now get this. i go to system info and it says "not found"

no wonder nobody likes it. it took me half an hour to realize where "my computer"was...

akmed

@strider_mt2k:
With that logic, 98 does the same thing as XP.

Darkest Daze

@strider_mt2k:

Yeah, I got a rather decent Vista machine. It was still sluggish. So I got a much better machine; a MacBook Pro.

glass

@frigg: Haha, beautiful. And yeah, Vista sucks, they should "make it better" as so eloquently put by seraphsilhoutte. But until they make stuff (games) just as compatible with Macs etc as they are with PCs, i'll stick to XP. and no, i'm not talking about booting XP on a Mac. that is not an argument. you are then using XP. i'm terrible at expressing my thoughts

Alfonzo

Requirements for running Vista: 1. immediately shut off UAC. 2. Shut down indexing in the services menu. Once you've done that, Vista really isn't bad. For all those that think XP is so fantastic, try setting up computer and printer shares behind firewalls, especially different brands of firewalls. That's a fun nightmare. Oh, and have fun dragging out that floppy drive so you can install ACHI drivers. Press F6 fast enough? Oh you gotta start over!

davekaybsc

@webran61-

That's almost my name, which is Salam! Idk why it's there though...

Crazysamz

@oyumurtaci: YOUR TURKISH?
DAMN, YOUR COUNTRY USED TO CONTROL MINE...

OH AND ISNT IT "SALAM ALEKUM"? OR IS TURKISH DIFFRENT FROM REGULAR ARABIC?

israeli

@frigg: Well played, good sir. Well played.

Sqube

It's just cool to hate the big guys who give you options to customize your computer via GUI instead of terminal or registry tweaking. Cause common, people who make your give you options are just douches. M$ Sucks. Unix rules.

GBirdii

I am running vista, there really isn't anything wrong with it. Yes, there are some features your better off disabling or tweaking to suit your needs.

It just need a newer computer to run it, which i don't find that shocking. Its a new OS. If your happy with xp, keep it.

I had a system crash, and rebuilt my comp from scratch. My old xp cd had a crack in it. So when it came down to pay 200 for xp pro, or 250 for vista, i really couldn't see why not. I new my hardware could run it. So there was no real loss. It runs clean, and i boot in about 45 seconds with basic software.

paulca82

XP forever!

Vista never...well okay not NEVER, but not until I can get a machine that can REALLY run it.

Waitaminute, why do I need a better machine to do EXACTLY THE SAME SHIT I'M DOING NOW WITH THE SAME HARDWARE?????

Still waiting for an answer on that one, actually.

strider_mt2k

@Webran61: @EU_dig: @israeli: It's an abbreviation (commonly used in Turkish, and the commenters name clearly suggests he is Turkish) of selamünaleyküm, which is essentially 'hello' in Arabic, and in Turkish the word 'selam' is used for 'hello' as well as 'regards' in formal language. Other than that, this is an obvious example of the inability of many of my countrymen failing at life. And just imagine, we conquered the Byzantine empire and were the largest single country in Europe at one point (Ottoman empire). That's about as good as it got really (which from a citizens standpoint, isn't very good).

oyumurtaci

Honestly I don't understand why some people are down on Vista. Works great on my Dell. I'd never go back to XP.

kibets

@Frigg: That was made of pure awesome!

Just to keep in character with the comments so far.

Hvedhrungr

HAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

HAHA.

MySoul7

I like how "willskater95" tries to insult MS by saying they make "third grade products". Too bad he looks like the 3rd grader with that grammar usage.

marm0lade

that shit is pretty funny

qed57

@EU_dig: @Webran61: IT MEANS PEACE IN ARABIC BUT IT ALSO MEANS "HI" AND THAT WHAT HE MEANT HERE

israeli

@EU_dig: "Selam" is the name of the 3.3 million-year-old fossilized remains of a 3-year-old Australopithecus afarensis female discovered in Dikika, Ethiopia. Clearly, through a lean and stinging metaphor, the commenter implies that Microsoft has become no less a fossilized relic itself.

frigg

EU_DIG: It means "peace," but also "Hello," I think. Like "Shalom."

oudemia

I wonder what % of them were posting from a PC running Windows.

Oz

I assume "Third grade products" was supposed to read "Third rate products"

Well, at least he got the spellings right...

homerjay

@Webran61:
I think "selam" means peace.

Silly Microsoft, comments are for kids.

EU_dig

@Webran61:

Strange huh? Stupid kids.

Microsoft, get ready for a barrage of pathetic and juvenile comments like "OFMG MICRO$OFT IS TEH GHEY AND SUXX DIXX".

dead_red_eyes

Jesustapdancingchrist... Is it just me or my English is pretty broken today?

Gatonegro

It seems that the idea that a good product promotes itself never came to their heads. The day they start worrying about having a high-quality OS instead of creating cheesy ads, I'll be the first one to kiss Madman Ballmer in that whacky dumb bald head of his. Luckily for me, that's probably not going to happen... ever.

Gatonegro

No one has ever confused Microsoft's PR department with a good PR department.

Welcome to the Internet, Microsoft.

bitfactory

"selam?"

Webran61

@nosauten: Yay, then we can all hate Apple instead. Microsoft haters don't truly enjoy the fact that if they were number one they wouldn't have Microsoft to blame. Wow, a big company not being treated like its not a big company, who would of thought it?

bbfreak

honestly if anyone in a company made a five year screw up, they would of gotten fired... everyone at apple is scared of Jobs, and everyone at Microsoft cant think of something original and innovative. now im not saying they havent come up with great things in the past but these guys need to stop thinking about their money, and start thinking about their customers.

northwood

@bbfreak: Both sides are tired of you too.

Pender

I didn't say they didn't deserve criticism, just that they don't deserved to be hated more than any other company necessarily. While Apple fans have a love-fest with Apple and worship at the feet of Steve Jobs others are content to spend hours thinking/showing how much they hate Bill Gates even though he's only the chairman now. Again, these are big companies, mostly in the business of serving their share-holders. Especially when comparing Apple to Microsoft is ridiculous in the first place. Its like comparing Frys to Best Buy, I guess what I'm saying is I'm tired of all the stupidness from both sides.

bbfreak

@bbfreak:
"Microsoft haters don't truly enjoy the fact that if they were number one they wouldn't have Microsoft to blame."
Wow. What a logical point you make.
People should appreciate M$, because they need someone to blame for all the bad things M$ does?
Are you drunk?

Seriously thou; I do get the point that your trying to make about how people are generally always just looking for someone to blame and something to blame them for.
I don't agree with you thou. M$ deserves all the due criticism the public can muster. They really dropped the ball.

VishusBurn

@Darkest Daze: Good point.

I guess I need to start doing some different shit! :D

strider_mt2k

@bbfreak: Microsoft is still the only company that has incorporated DRM into its OS at the kernel level. That cannot be stressed enough.

When Apple does that, you'll convince me that they're the same. Apple may put out overpriced, underperforming, un-upgradeable hardware, but at least they haven't done that.

HeartBurnKid

@Syndication:

may i ask you how to TURN OFF mac enforcement thingiemabob? i'm such a nub...

akmed

i boot xp in 15 on my mac...vista took a whole minute. I couldnt find the connecting to a router through wifi in vista,in xp i found it by just hitting the logical spots. Its as if microsoft decided to inovate on looks, and then on functionality, but only got half way through implementing the functionality. I cant find anything in vista, "if its not broken, dont fix it". Improve security, improve GUI, don't change the way things were.

smeee

@smeee:
yeah my experience with vista is that it's just like xp, except it asks you stupid questions, and all the settings and menus have gone through what appears to be a shuffling that only a game of 52-pickup could match.

nutbastard

I have to admit that if you are complaining about Vista is because you haven't tried it and are using words of others to make yours...

Vista works great no issues like the first days of XP or even Millenium which was the real crap.

If you take away the widgets and the 3D desktop off it runs perfectly. You have to work a lot though to make the security feature a friend...

If you can't get what you want out of Vista it's simply because you don't own most of your software installed. Stop pirating and downloading scrap from the net you might be able to use Vista at is full potential.

Aodoine

Well for my birthday I bought a new laptop with windows vista to replace my yr old laptop running Windows XP. That was like 4 months ago, I can honestly say Vista is horrible compared to XP pro.

I personally could of waited another 5yrs.... Mind you I have used windows all of my life and have no interest in apple n the "mac" whatsoever. So point is i upgraded the laptop to XP pro, and Microsoft really punched themselves in the face on this one.

alex2643

Actually it just seems like this is another way they are trying to listen to their customers. Which they have been doing recently and I say bravo to that. Unfortunately the comments will be reduced to flaming product/fanboy wars and not much will be accomplished.
prolly what will happen to this page in less than 6 hours. Please someone compare Bill to Hitler so we know Godwin's law is still in effect.

almostdvs

Anyone else find it amusing how the youtube user profile has "Age = 25" written in it?

qld