Microsoft Reveals Vista SP1 Will Install XP

[LightFang]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/09/microsoft-reveals-windows-vista-sp1-will-install-xp.html

Redmond, WA – In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP.

"We're focused on giving the customer what they want, and want they want is to just go back to XP," said Microsoft Development Chief Greg Elston.

Elston said not only will the move improve customer satisfaction with Vista, but will allow the company to focus resources on the next operating system instead of the flailing Vista. "We can move people off of Vista development now, and move them to Windows 7 development," said Elston. "That should allow us to only delay Windows 7 by thirteen months past its scheduled date instead of the planned eighteen."

Customers have had many complaints about Vista, so it wasn't surprising the response to the move was mostly positive. "Ever since I install Vista I've wanted to go back to XP," said Trey Sportia. "I'm glad Microsoft has given me an easy downgrade path."

Some customers complained about paying for Vista when all they'll end up with is XP which they had already. Elston said that "if people read the license agreement they'll see this is perfectly within our rights. Anyway, we're calling it Vista XP, so it is new in a way."
Elston also added that if people complain too much they'll just revert to Windows ME.

let's see how many people fall for it

 

[Godwynn]

Good. Vista is a crap OS anyway. Luckily it was my father who found that out and not me.

I'm still a bigger fan of 98. I hate this little damn pop-up saying that my computer might be at risk.

 

[malclave]

Good. Vista is a crap OS anyway.

Umm... I think the source is a humor site, kind of like the Onion? I don't think there's an SP that will uninstall the existing OS and install a different one...

 

[Kraznaya]

Umm... I think the source is a humor site, kind of like the Onion? I don't think there's an SP that will uninstall the existing OS and install a different one...

Maybe he was just responding to satire with the same sarcasm?

 

[malclave]

Maybe he was just responding to satire with the same sarcasm?

Maybe. The tone of the message doesn't really suggest that to me, though.

 

[Leonel]

As a poster said in an image board that shalt not be named, I feel no need to hide my delight at their lacking of mental capacities and question their sexual preferences to the extreme!

 

[warpus]

Maybe he was just responding to satire with the same sarcasm?

Maybe malclave was just being sarcastic, in response to the sarcasm?

 

[Slaughter]

Best upgrade ever!

 

[Bad Player]

Maybe the thread about Bush allowing mountain top removal and dumping it into streams and valleys is a joke too...


somebody pinch me please

 

[Stewbert 08]

Vista blows so much that I nearly thought this article was real.

 

[Bill3000]

I wish this was true.

 

[emzie]

Vista blows so much that I nearly thought this article was real.

dingdingding

 

[BirraImperial]

Vista blows so much that I nearly thought this article was real.

LOL, I was thinking Microsoft finally made something right!

 

[aneeshm]

The day MS makes something that doesn't suck, it'll be their debut in the vacuum cleaner market.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

The day MS makes something that doesn't suck, it'll be their debut in the vacuum cleaner market.

To be fair, I love Microsoft Visual Studio. It is just that Microsoft's operating systems, paper clips, browsers, and search functions that suck.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

Do all of you have the classic layout or can you just not see Lightfang's comment?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Or the fact that it's in H&J...

I actually like Vista, though not significantly more than XP... but I won't say more, because this is no place for silliness. *glares*

 

[malclave]

Or the fact that it's in H&J...

It started in Off Topic, not here.

 

[LightFang]

The real thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=244357