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- zoxx, on 12/17/2007, -9/+370Meanwhile, my biggest tech disappointment of 2007: STILL NO DAMN HOVERBOARDS.
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -41/+382Hey look, an anti-Microsoft topic. Looks like PCWorld has figured out how to get hits on the internet, too.
- joshman5k, on 12/17/2007, -16/+231I don't think Office 2007 deserves to be on the list.
- whazup911, on 12/17/2007, -13/+200They compared CD-R vs CD-RW, to Beta vs VHS,and Blu-ray to HD DVD? Who the hell wrote this?
- DesertDude, on 12/17/2007, -12/+184Blog spam.
- JasonCox, on 12/17/2007, -10/+137Joke is on them, Vista was released in 2006.
- wild, on 12/17/2007, -2/+118No, I didnt, because rather than link to the actual list, they submitted the endgadget bitch article.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583/article.h ... - ThinkFr33ly, on 12/17/2007, -41/+148The anti-Microsoft FUD campaign has done its job, and done it well. Vista is a pretty damn good OS, yet a huge percentage of nerd-dom out there thinks it's crap... many of them without ever having used it.
- gcnaddict, on 12/17/2007, -6/+106http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c, ...
buried as blogspam. - doctordbx, on 12/17/2007, -8/+70WTF... I'd like to RTFA but there is no FA... just blogspam. Can someone please post a link so I can RTFA
KTHX - DocHoliday22, on 12/17/2007, -19/+80You were surprised that iPhone made the list? Have you been living under a rock for the last year?
- ibeetle, on 12/17/2007, -2/+62I did not see any list of the biggest tech disappointments from PC World... all I saw was a Engadget blog about a article about tech disappointment from PC World via a Engadget blog.
Why not link to the PC World article? - widgetmaker, on 12/17/2007, -6/+50I love office the new interface is great, by far the best work suite on the market atm.
- Shakermaker, on 12/17/2007, -21/+65I guess I'm in the minority then....I have Vista Home Permium on my new laptop and love it.
- kp606, on 12/17/2007, -5/+48Leopard OS X and iPhone is on there too. So is Facebook, and the Hi-Def wars.
Everyone get their blows in this one. - waydee, on 12/17/2007, -15/+57Yeah but give it a few years and they'll all be running it - it makes me laugh, every major Windows release gets this same reaction from angry basement dwelling nerds and then before long they're all running it. It was the _exact_ same thing with XP.
- banmaster, on 12/17/2007, -4/+41Some of my clients run Office 2007 (on XP mind you) with only 512Mb and its just as fast as the previous versions. On Vista it does need more RAM, but pretty much every OS places greater strain on hardware resources so really, whats the big deal?? Office 2007 is a fantastic step up from the 2003 version, and light years ahead of any competition.
- KibibyteBrain, on 12/17/2007, -1/+382007 has been a very disappointing year for tech in general. Intel has basically upped the actual backbone tech ante into the stratosphere but we had only fringe innovation and almost none of it took advantage of the new technology out there. Tons of interesting technologies that are not pretty mature like Zigbee/xbee/wimax still go totally neglected in the mainstream market. Many technical advances of the year really had little impact on benefit for consumers. For example, now you can pick up a 10 megapixel camera for pocket change, but the pictures it makes are still about the same quality wise as similarly priced cameras of last year...and last decade. The most innovative products of the last year or so like the iPhone and Nintendo Wii have basically been new ways to look at software interfacing and little to do with actual tech bumps. Oh, and the web 2.0 bubble has finally formed, and it seems to have even less hope than the original going for it.
I mean, when *Ford* comes out with perhaps the most innovative product of a year, you know its bad...Hopefully 2008 promises to be more interesting... - theseventhyear, on 12/17/2007, -5/+40inaccurate. I never had high expectations for vista, and as such im not disappointed
- coloneltcb, on 12/17/2007, -39/+73yeah Vista is ***** but so is this list -- did anyone look at the other 14 they had?
- Kelmon, on 12/17/2007, -5/+37I'm running Office 2007 under VMWare Fusion on a MacBook Pro with 1GB assigned to the VM and it runs fine - you certainly don't need 4GB RAM to run it well.
- Kelmon, on 12/17/2007, -7/+39I'm not going to say that Vista is crap because it isn't. However, the article (if you can find it rather than the Engadget "article") is called "Biggest Tech Disappointments" and in that respect I think that Vista qualifies. It's not crap but then it's not what we expected after so many years of development. That there really isn't any compelling reason to upgrade to Vista from XP is telling. It's alright but, damn, we expected so much more.
- fkr3, on 12/17/2007, -3/+35Because if you link to the PC World article Engadget doesn't get to feel relevant.
- waydee, on 12/17/2007, -27/+54I don't understand the vista hate... I'm running it on a 2006 spec core2duo laptop with 1.5gig ram and intel integrated graphics and it runs like a charm, theres drivers for every peripheral I use and it seems just as stable and fast as XP ever was but with handy new features.
What am I missing here? the whole DRM issue? I can't say thats ever bothered me, im not even sure what restrictions it enforces... certainly not anything I ever do.
I've got used to fast search, window previews and like the new inbuilt photo management program - sp1 improved network performance and makes my NAS play nicely with vista.
Whats the big problem? - doctordbx, on 12/17/2007, -8/+35Wow, after finally reading the list, I rank engadget the worst PC news site in the world, with PC World a close second.
- antitab, on 12/17/2007, -0/+27I hope they meant DVD-R vs. DVD+R. That's an apt comparison. -R to -RW of any format doesn't match that pattern, though.
- GMorgan, on 12/17/2007, -18/+44Vista is extremely disappointing. When it was first announced they offered a huge series of real advances. It is clear the only advance has actually been in eye candy. Everything interesting has been stripped out, Vista isn't bad it just doesn't offer anything meaningful over XP.
- mark_in_bc, on 12/17/2007, -9/+35Leopard was a big disappointment . Not only was it buggy it did not live up to it's hype.
- wheezy360, on 12/17/2007, -0/+25Back to the Future 2 didn't take place until 2015 so we have a little more time left before we can start the revolt.
- sv650touring, on 12/17/2007, -3/+26Even Apple fans will tell you that Apple disappoints regularly. That's the problem with declaring every product revolutionary".
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -31/+54Vista is awesome. I'd never downgrade to XP. Just the new search and application launchers take the cake.
- doshindude, on 12/17/2007, -11/+34are you kidding? iphone should've been #2.
- Teckla, on 12/17/2007, -0/+22Thanks wild. And here's a print (all on one page) version of the PC World article:
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,140583 ... - waydee, on 12/17/2007, -7/+29You're not - infact you'd probably find that the majority of vista users have no issue with the OS. It's the people who aren't running it that are particularly vocal with their hate, the majority of them just jumping on the bandwagon.
- OpenFuture, on 12/17/2007, -6/+26This article doesn't seem all that Mac biased considering that Leopard came in #8 on the list.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,3-c, ... - Spuy767, on 12/17/2007, -2/+22No one called anything "*****," but if you take what was promised vs what was delivered, Vista is a pretty huge ***** letdown.
- kp606, on 12/17/2007, -4/+24Microsoft Office should not be on that list. I've waited seven years to get a Microsoft Word that did not have Times New Roman as the default coming out of the package and dag-nabbit, I finally got it! (Calibri is the *****).
- Philbert, on 12/17/2007, -14/+33I have absolutely no problems with Vista Ultimate x64. I dugg for their use of "It ain't all THAT bad".
- 1shawn, on 12/17/2007, -7/+25Direct link to the PC World article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,1-c, ...
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -6/+22Leopard comes 8th for giant, showstopping bugs as a deactivated firewall *by default*, faulty copy functions and a broken wifi stack, bugs that should have been rooted out through proper beta testing; yet Vista comes 1st because it 'doesn't meet expectations'? Vista's a disappointment, yeah, but you can't say the article's not at least *somewhat* pro-Mac-anti-Windows.
- norman619, on 12/17/2007, -8/+24But but but ... it's apple....
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -16/+32Why was Leopard number 8 with the listed problems like losing data during upgrades, losing administrator accounts and more, when all they had bad to say about Vista was "its not that good." Even with Leopard and the iPhone in the list if you read it as a whole, they praise Apple at every other step. I'm sorry but i've been using iTunes for my iPod for over a year and I still haven't figured out how to use the damned thing. At least with a generic mp3 player you can open its folder, and "drag and drop," music to it. Every time i try Apple software I just feel like it doesn't live up to the hype.
- thefinger, on 12/17/2007, -7/+22If they're going to rag on office software, they should go after the biggest clunkiest turkey I've ever seen, OpenOffice. It wins a raspberry for 2007 and for every other year it's been around.
- simplistics06, on 12/17/2007, -12/+27Vista says my activation key is invalid :) /wrists
- banmaster, on 12/17/2007, -9/+24The reason being that generally, windows users don't need one, unlike their 'creative' brethren who think that owning a mac makes then unique and different (just like all the other mac owners) but who can barely string together a simple sentence that doesn't have them felating Steve Jobs in it!.
- Spinney, on 12/17/2007, -29/+43ok we get it vista sucks enough already
- gcnaddict, on 12/17/2007, -2/+16http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c, ...
buried engadget link for blogspam. - Orlong, on 12/17/2007, -28/+42Vista only sucks for cheap people who dont want to buy updated software to run on it and new hardware. It also sucks for pirates as DRM rears its head. They want to keep running their DOS programs and using crappy GeForce TI200 video cards. If you have updated equipment and software Vista runs great. Also how do they know that something crappier than what is on their list isnt going to come out in the next 2 weeks. 2007 isnt over yet
- DarkShroud, on 12/17/2007, -5/+19That was a claim made by people who didn't know about Vista's new memory management program. They were too busy bashing Vista & MS to actually do some research on what Vista does.
- mark_in_bc, on 12/17/2007, -2/+16Your organization needs to hire a new tech guy. I'm running it on two laptops one with 1 gig of ram and the other with 2 and it's working great on both. I also have a mac book and look forward to office 2008 when it comes out.
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