Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Okay. Longhorn, this is truly a disaster for the company. Well, so 100% it is, but they were trying to talk about it like it wasn’t. I watched the launch announcement for this too. They have to. They can’t really say like nobody’s upgraded this. They come out. First of all, it’s Bill Gates again in 2006, six years after Steve Ballmer has become CEO. My opinion on this is they clearly had no idea what to talk about in the keynote because the one feature that I can really remember as a flagship feature is that alt-tab switcher that was 3D that kept bringing the windows closer and closer and closer to you. They’ve got the widgets, they’ve got the sidebar, it’s Aero. They had one feature that people hated. There was a revolt called user access control, which the theory makes sense protecting users from running malicious and blah-blah-blah. But in practice, it would just overwhelm you with dialogue boxes all the time. Everyone’s just trying to figure out how do I turn off the dialogue boxes. They’re standing up there at the keynote, the whole thing, the marketing message is the wow starts now. . Oh boy. Oh boy.…

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