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Microsoft Unleashes "Vista Doesn't Suck" Campaign On World

You might remember that Microsoft dropped the hint that they were working on countering Apple's Mac/PC ads. Well, the battle begins now. Microsoft has created a website to give users compelling reasons to update to Vista. It has a rather frank admission from Microsoft:

"When Windows Vista debuted in January 2007, we declared it the best operating system we had ever made. "Windows Vista is beautiful," The New York Times raved. It's humbling that millions of you agree.

But we know a few of you were disappointed by your early encounter. Printers didn't work. Games felt sluggish. You told us-loudly at times-that the latest Windows wasn't always living up to your high expectations for a Microsoft product."

Then Microsoft goes into great detail about how Vista has improved since then with "100 Reasons Why You'll Be Speechless" as well as "10 Things To Try."

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andron666 - 525 days 12 hours ago

1 - That train has left and been swallowd up in darkness...

I bought an ultra cheap laptop and, the first thing I did was install Linux over the Vista Basic that was "included".

That may count as a Vista sale, but I won't be using it...

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Tempist - 525 days 11 hours ago

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Well it's not 100% a lousy product. It's more misguided and should have never been fractured into so many versions. All and all I have to say there's a bit of a thrill and joy in modding Vista to work as I want it as in the olden days of WIN98 and WINXP/2000.

It's like a rubix cube that someone else has messed up, leaving you the puzzle of solving it and making it right.

However, reading this list, they're doing Apple's "300 'new' features in OS X Leopard". The 10 and 100 lists are jokes. Marketers take note.

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StephanieBBB - 525 days 10 hours ago

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As I always use to say, If something works fine don't F with it...

This has never come to many others minds...

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tojfs7931 - 525 days 6 hours ago

1.3 - Well

Thats your choice. But its also your loss.

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red_ring_of_death - 525 days 11 hours ago

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yea it does suck

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Fishy Fingers - 525 days 11 hours ago

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Definitely doesnt "suck", but it neither excels over XP as a operating system or a gaming platform.

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joe382 - 524 days 14 hours ago

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It sucks so much. I am using it right now and it so slow and annoying. How do you install linux ?

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AllseeingEye - 525 days 11 hours ago

4 - there is no way to spin out of this one

Vista sucks and my poor laptop is one of a casualties of it. It takes up soooo much memory and underperforms. I uninstalled it the first week I had it and reinstalled xp.

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KnaveX - 525 days 11 hours ago

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can i have your copy of vista because after all of the service packs crap and upgrades its still slow as hell, frustrating to work with and incompatible with a ton of software.

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andron666 - 525 days 9 hours ago

5.3 - Calling someone a noob or claiming they have outdated hardware...

Just doesn't change the fact that Vista is bloated, and severally annoying to a great number of people.

MS own "Vista doesn't suck" campaign only makes the matter worse...

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madjedi - 525 days 8 hours ago

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Care to explain why a file system, needs the hardware eqivolent to what some 3d shooter use?

Also how bloated is vista if it needs 15 gigs of hdd space, if people hate vista, why would they read new information about improvements to it.

Despite what some vista lovers believe, not everyone that can't stand vista is running a slow old machine, some don't view vista as better than xp, if people view vista as inferior,why upgrade.

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bleachrulez - 525 days 11 hours ago

6 - to me vista is ok

but Xp was just so much better

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SaiyanFury - 525 days 10 hours ago

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My laptop came with Vista Home Premium but ate my antivirus where I could no longer install it and annihilated my touchpad drivers after 2 months of use. It's been XP ever since....

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devilhunterx - 525 days 10 hours ago

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High Expectations? From a M$ product....BWAHAHAHAHAHA

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Bazookajoe_83 - 525 days 10 hours ago

9 - Isnt that kinda pathetic?

We promise our product doesnt suck. It will only give people more troubles in deciding to go with xp or vista, or linux for that mather.

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Xiphos - 525 days 9 hours ago

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*waits for "Windows Vista Mountain Dew Computing Fuel"*

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WEL - 525 days 8 hours ago

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i have vista since april and it's not as bad as everybody says. in fact it's better than XP. i'm a programmer and i use language compilers like C++, visual basic, flash and it's a lot better because it's faster than on xp...

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cpuchess - 525 days 8 hours ago

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I just bought a gaming PC with Vista 64 bit \ 4GB RAM and I love it way more than the XP I had on my previous PC. However I can certainly understand why some people with just a regular PC would not like it if it makes their machine sluggish.

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Raoh - 525 days 8 hours ago

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Microsoft: Please buy vista

it will make upgrading to Windows 7 that much easier.. we promise..

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TheBanditKing - 525 days 7 hours ago

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Wow, that sure showed Apple a thing or two..................Vista still sucks by the way.

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dommafia - 525 days 5 hours ago

15 - I wonder ...

why you all aren't on windows 95. I remember the same crap being thrown around when xp was first shipped. Vista didn't get a good start, that's nothing new for an OS. Did everyone forget the first iterations of windows xp and how no one will switch to the bloated/slow/unoptimized new OS? Yeah...

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andron666 - 525 days 2 hours ago

15.1 - Point is MS never learns...

Windows has always been bloated and annoying. But MS failure to rectify Windows flaws or ever learning from their mistakes is becoming a sad joke...

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madjedi - 524 days 22 hours ago

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I am curious how long did it take xp to be adopted in mass by the business community, if you know?

Also when businesses started adpoting xp in mass, what was the percentage that opted to downgrade to windows 2000, rather than use xp from the get go thx.

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QueefyB - 525 days 12 hours ago

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AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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LeSouteneur - 525 days 12 hours ago

1.1 - I second that

HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

Vista sucks. Period.

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 525 days 11 hours ago

1.2 - Third

Muahahahahahahahahahahahaha

The Blue Screen of Death Strikes Again!

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Shroomy - 525 days 11 hours ago

1.3 - I would just love Sony to make an OS

"Firmware updating.....

ERROR SHUTDOWN"

Ah, Sony's own BSOD!

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 525 days 11 hours ago

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We at Sony are not interested in an OS.Apple does a fine enough job of owning Windows all the time.Besides we rather focus on making better games,reliable hardware,innovations,you know the stuff that Microsoft rushed on and stumbled on.

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Pain - 525 days 10 hours ago

1.5 - BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but but but it sold 180mill......

http://www.itproportal.com/...

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juuken - 525 days 11 hours ago

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Lmfao, what the f*ck?
I'm sorry but Vista sucks. :/

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Obama - 525 days 11 hours ago

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haha it's like MS saying: xbox360 doesn't break!

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dkgshiz - 525 days 11 hours ago

4 - yea vista does suck.

Its a really big flop. The only reason you would want this sh!t is if you like to use direct x 10.

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waseem335 - 525 days 11 hours ago

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im forced to use vista cuz they pre-install it on every new computer/laptop wtf!!!

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SoIid Snake - 525 days 10 hours ago

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It doesn't suck, it's just not as good as Windows 3.1

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dc08 - 525 days 10 hours ago

7 - Vista isn't that great

Microsoft should stick to what they do best... making reliable hardware

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 525 days 10 hours ago

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Hahahahahaha

You made my day

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eagle21 - 525 days 8 hours ago

8 - "Vista doesn't SUCK"...."It sorda SUCKS"

(paid for by the Microsoft Corporation of Spin doctors)....

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zonetrooper5 - 525 days 7 hours ago

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Most of the time you get a BSOD if you have crappy hardware in your PC lol. Then its that 1% of the time when its actually the operating systems fault.

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karlostomy - 524 days 18 hours ago

10 - I'll bet all of the sad little sdf lemmings

use Vista or XP when they post on n4g

The irony!

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