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You're Not Alone: Microsoft Execs Struggled with Vista

daboggeyman

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Some of Microsoft's own top executives had trouble getting Windows Vista to work in the weeks after its release, according to company e-mails unsealed today.

The full story Via;PC World
 

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Just imagine, Bill Gate trying to get Vista to do an upgrade on a Windows 95 system... lol.
 
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I think Bill Gates would have given up on Windows after Vista, I think he's probably using Linux.
 

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You'll notice that the issues that the MS execs were having was due to 3 party driver problems. The article's statement "getting Vista to work" is a little misleading.
 

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I think Bill Gates would have given up on Windows after Vista, I think he's probably using Linux.

i bet he has a macbook pro, and calls himself whenever something goes wrong in bootcamp :p
 
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