consumer survey

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;

Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you,
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a single digit number? :)

Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast

Neither to be honest. I just crack on, and report back :o)
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--- Original message follows --- "Adahn" wrote in message

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;

Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you,
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a single digit number? :)

Indifferent then :)
I started off as Excited, but after hearing about the targeted release date & seeing 5270 & 5308, I'll have to choose Disappointed :x
"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message

Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Neither to be honest. I just crack on, and report back :o)

Personally I'm rather pleased that Vista has been delayed that much. Hopefully it means it won't be released half-finished, the way XP was. Maybe Microsoft is becoming mature at long last... -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Adahn" a écrit dans le message de news: e95YDG0QGHA.196@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... | Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites | to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress; | | | | Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the | impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you, | | Excited, | Satisfied, | Indifferent, | Disappointed, or | Aghast | | | Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a | single digit number? :) |

As of beta #2 b5308 on an ASUS K8V SE test machine with an Athlon 64 3200+ 754 CPU and 512 MB of RAM, I would give it Disappointed right now. Hopefully, this will change in later betas and builds.
I do admit that the GUI and some graphic effects are very pretty and neat even if it is slow. :) I will be needing to upgrade my computers if I am going to use Vista with everything enabled.
I really hope MS can fix all these issues before its release date. :(
On 3/9/2006 2:20 AM PT, Adahn wrote:

Indifferent then :)
I started off as Excited, but after hearing about the targeted release date & seeing 5270 & 5308, I'll have to choose Disappointed :x
"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Neither to be honest. I just crack on, and report back :o) --

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"Adahn" wrote in message

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;
I gotta say that I'm currently satisfied (not quite excited, need a PC

upgrade to get to that level ;) ). I've had a chance to dig through lots of stuff in the last couple of weeks. I've come across lots of nice little touches that I've not seen in any reviews anywhere that just hint to me of the care and attention that is going into Vista. There is plenty of fit and polish left to do granted, but I'm confident that it'll get done.
-- </Slugsie>

Adahn wrote:

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;

Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you,
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a single digit number? :)

Vista is bloated adware which is chocked full of DRM and ripped off it's look from OSX.
http://www.adrants.com/2006/02/microsoft-faces-obstacles-over-vista-welc.php
Aghast is an understatement.

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:19:54 +0500, "Adahn" wrote:

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;

Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you,
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a single digit number? :)

I'd say disappointed but its only because I got very used to having certain things work perfectly. I purposely installed it on my machine at home to be able to best report problems and to help Microsoft as best as possible, so that the OS that they end up shipping is ready for primetime.

Disappointed, need I say more...?
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World" "Adahn" wrote in message

Given the upcoming public beta, it's high time for MS and all the fan-sites to take a public poll regarding Vista's progress;

Considering the time Vista/Longhorn has been under development and hype, the impeding release date, and the final shape Vista is taking, are you,
Excited, Satisfied, Indifferent, Disappointed, or Aghast
Care to bet on the percentage of people voting for Satisfied/Excited being a single digit number? :)