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Dell Wasn't Too Impressed by Vista

Posted 10/21/09 at 05:34:19 PM  by Bart Salisbury

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With friends like Dell: “When you consider that Vista was a bust,” said Dell's president for large enterprise Stephen Schuckenbrock, “Windows 7 is a capability upgrade on a scale that has really never been seen before."

Vista a bust? Yeah, well, I suppose so. But why wait until the day before it’s upgrade appears to say so? Some of those very Vista users are where they are because of a recommendation they received from Dell. Besides a knife in the back of its customers, it sort of undermines Dell’s future sales pitches, doesn’t it

And Schuckenbrock’s comment seems faint praise for Windows 7. Windows 7: it looks great when you compare it to Vista--which sucked! On that basis so to does XP, or Linux, or OS 9.

Interesting comment from a company that sees Microsoft’s new operating system as a pick-me up for their stagnant computer sales.

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COMMENTS:5
TAGS: vista, dell, windows 7, windows 7 week
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avatarLook whose calling the

Submitted by big_montana on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 5:45pm

Look whose calling the kettle black. Dell complaining about a substandard product? Methinks he doth complain to much and is trying to take the spotlight of of Dell's still continuing slide due to still increasing quality issues with every new hardware release. Dell needs to worry about fixing their own issues before they start pointing fingers at someone else. At least Microsoft recognized the problem and fixed it. Now if Dell could only learn from this.

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avatarAm I the only one who

Submitted by Fiercedeity on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 3:35pm

Am I the only one who wonders why MPC had to choose a topless guy for the article picture? Really? A guy with his shirt on wouldn't have gotten the point across? ><

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avatarYou were aroused, weren't

Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 5:02pm

You were aroused, weren't you?

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avatarTotally. My girlfriend was

Submitted by Fiercedeity on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 10:58am

Totally. My girlfriend was giving me the strangest looks.

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avatarHad to wait until almost no

Submitted by Onyx2291 on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 2:51pm

Had to wait until almost no one would flame him for saying such a thing about Vista. 

And let's hope that 7 would be better. I honestly didn't see much of a difference in things I did on Vista -> XP due to my computers usually being bad all around and the fact that I was still very ignorant about technology when the Vista came out, compared to me being mildly ignorant now. Hope to have 7 make me open my eyes.

-Onyx

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