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Originally posted by: SSSnail
I think they do it just because they can... and love this line from the second ad
Kid "Wow, cool, when is this coming out???"
Bill "Never, and if someone ask you where you got it from, you don't know".
Chuckles McGee @ Sep 12th 2008 7:36AM
The "gum" and other bad things (the broken car, swimming pool without heater, empty ketchup bottle, repeating the same stale meal twice) represent Windows XP- people getting by with the same old, day in and day out. The grandmother represents an old Windows user, clueless and bitterly disconnected, since she's been "around for 12 years". The scallop potatoes and "fancy" mustard represents XP's attempts to keep modern and with the times. The leather giraffe, here a carry over from the previous "leather" of the first commercial, represents Windows XP itself ("had it in the family 6 years"), and Gate's being planted with it represents the criticism that Microsoft encountered when it tried to take XP away from new machines in an attempt to push Vista. In reality though, the commercial claims that the real reason why people were upset was because Microsoft was infringing on people's space (Seinfeld clipping his nails in the girls room) and so this is why Jerry and Bill leave. And there's something big coming from Microsoft.
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: SSSnail
I think they do it just because they can... and love this line from the second ad
Kid "Wow, cool, when is this coming out???"
Bill "Never, and if someone ask you where you got it from, you don't know".
:laugh: I love that part
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
P-A version of new ad.
Originally posted by: clamum
Originally posted by: Anubis
Why no hyperterminal? because no one uses it anymore
UAC is annoying, yes you can turn it off, but its still annoying. not hard to turn off takes 2 secs shouldent be an issue
I have to make an effort to run cmd as admin to get anything done log in as admin
No Admin tools for AD like with XP ?
Network Control panel is horrible ok ill give you that one
Everything moved and is now counter intuitive people bitched about the same thing from 98/2k->XP
Too high requirements for an OS that doesnt do anything new stop trying to run it on a 10 year old computer, it runs perfectly fine on midrange comps that were out when it was released
Network transfers are much slower compared to XP never had issues with this + they fixed it in SP1
Application compatibility is a joke never had an issue here
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Hahaha, Hyperterminal. No one fucking uses that bullshit.
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
I think they are just trying to remove the bad press around Vista.
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Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Yeah, liked it. But too long for normal TV surely?
Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i do. often. when you work with telemetry systems that date up to 15 yrs old, the chance of needing it is always there. it is still a great tool to use when the new protocols fail as well. many industrial radios/ modems have a HT back door to use in case their ethernet isnt working. as for the compatibility, the way they changed services running is a huge issue for many communications software packages. out of all the scada software i use for work, i cant think of one that is compliant to run on vista. that all said, i have no real issues using vista on a personal level, i just cant use it for work. all my machines are still bought with xp pro on them.