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“Windows Vista 2 allows you to search for apps easily, so if I type ‘Word’, you get, well I got Wordpad in this case, but it’s an easy way to bring your apps to you.”

Paraphrasing from this video:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-3513_7-6530547.html

It failed to present Microsoft Word to the reviewer, live on camera. Like we’ve been saying, it’s beta. Beta 2, but beta.

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May. 23, 2006
6:06 PM

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And you have proof that Word was installed, right?

BTW, Spotlight froze The World’s Most Perfect OS when it was closer to release than Vista is.

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May. 23, 2006
7:27 PM

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And you have proof that Word was installed, right?

Why was he searching for Word if it wasn’t installed? Liam, how often do you search for Maya on your computer?

Spotlight froze The World’s Most Perfect OS

Liam, don’t get down to my level!!! smile

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May. 24, 2006
8:50 AM

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It is a possibiltity that he thought that Word was installed, but it wasn’t.

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May. 24, 2006
10:23 AM

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Of course. I don’t think it’s likely, though. I doubt he just sat down with a video camera to record a review for C|Net and didn’t have a rehearsal. It’s an “objective” review and they put it up there with warts and all. I think that if it was their fault versus the product’s they are reviewing, they would have corrected the mistake and not put that up on the Web at all.

You know what I’m saying? When you read reviews, they’ll tell you that there was a bug when they tried something or that it didn’t work as advertised. They are suppose to do that. If it’s their mistake, they don’t report it. For example, I wouldn’t write a review and say, “Vista has a new search tool that instantly brings up results. I typed in Word and it didn’t find it because I don’t have Word installed.”

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May. 24, 2006
10:38 AM

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Microsoft OS X, errr, Vista, I spontaneously thought of Mac OS X when I saw this video too. (but at ZDNet)
And FINALLY, something at least similar to sudo.

Anyone knows how many apps Vista will break?

Why do MS insist on keeping that archaic start-menu? Ahh, the db filesystem WinFS is not there....

I bet if they switched off all that eye-candy the premium PC wouldn’t be needed.

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May. 25, 2006
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