Microsoft hatred .. Were they right?

Kainz · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:14

Why should one guy suffer when the driver vendors are mainly to blame for Vista's poor first half year or so. Creative, Nvidia, ATI to name but a few were utterly useless, they are to blame more than anyone else.

Vista started out as a fine OS and still is even today since the drivers have now well matured enough for Windows 7 to comfortably slip into it's place. Had we received Windows 7 as a successor to XP, it would have undergone the same negative critisism.

Most people slagging Vista off haven't a clue and do it as mentioned because it's the cool thing to do. I recall MS dressing up Vista as an alternative looking OS at one point for a survey or something - and all the folks who used that OS 'loved the experience'. Just shows how clueless folk are.

FatalSaviour · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:35

I think that MS did drop the ball a bit on Vista's launch, and it wasn't only driver issues that let them down. Things like file copy speeds that were entirely within their control made using the OS a pain at times. Having said that, I continued to use it, because I thought it was a valuable enough evolution from XP. Service Pack 1 improved the situation a lot, and SP2 has polished the OS more. It's still a bit of a resource hog, but no-one's forcing anyone to use the OS at the end of the day...
Anyway, that's a bit off-topic....sounds like it was a good event - I'll have to try to look out for it next year!
As for how they behaved... completely unacceptable...

ScarySquirrel · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:35

They all sounds like retards!

meghatronic · 11 Sep 2009 at 13:39

I love Microsoft.

Streeteh · 11 Sep 2009 at 14:58

Kainz said:
Why should one guy suffer when the driver vendors are mainly to blame for Vista's poor first half year or so. Creative, Nvidia, ATI to name but a few were utterly useless, they are to blame more than anyone else.

Vista started out as a fine OS and still is even today since the drivers have now well matured enough for Windows 7 to comfortably slip into it's place. Had we received Windows 7 as a successor to XP, it would have undergone the same negative critisism.

Most people slagging Vista off haven't a clue and do it as mentioned because it's the cool thing to do. I recall MS dressing up Vista as an alternative looking OS at one point for a survey or something - and all the folks who used that OS 'loved the experience'. Just shows how clueless folk are.

Very good post, tbh i can't find anything i don't completely agree with in it.

Gerard · 11 Sep 2009 at 15:43

Sounds like it got invaded by a bunch of apple fanboys.

Dark_Angel · 11 Sep 2009 at 15:44

When things like this happen it just really ticks me off.

Completely the wrong attitude to have at events hosted by the company. :mad:

synixx · 11 Sep 2009 at 16:17

thats unacceptable.

do me a favour and give you friend a slap, maybe he will learn some respect.

Even if I really hated vista I would still not do that, I have self respect and respect for others, especially if they hosted a superb night free of charge.

The Running Man · 11 Sep 2009 at 16:25

ya note they werent booing when they were giving free xbox360's away...

load of sheeples tbh

Ev0 · 11 Sep 2009 at 18:02

Dano said:
Cretins.

this

Tummy · 11 Sep 2009 at 19:25

Sounds like such a fantastic event.
I'd love to go to something like that!

Microsoft are fantastic, they're not always 100% right about things, but in this day and age very few companies are. The hate they get is unjust and unjustified. I'm willing to bet the majority of people in that crowd were owners of an 360 and gamed on a Microsoft operating system, probably Vista.

Nymins · 11 Sep 2009 at 19:33

meghatronic said:
I love Microsoft.

This tbh. Really don't get all this "hate" about them.

drew64 · 11 Sep 2009 at 19:39

Nymins said:
This tbh. Really don't get all this "hate" about them.

cus it makes you cool...DUHH

petemyster · 11 Sep 2009 at 19:58

britboy4321 said:
Anyway I'm in heated debate with my friend who I went with .. he says Microsoft-guy deserved it totally because Vista was so useless and Microsoft are ****ers.

sounds like a moron, if he don't like it, don't buy it.

Unacceptable

drew64 · 11 Sep 2009 at 20:06

britboy4321 said:
Anyway I'm in heated debate with my friend who I went with .. he says Microsoft-guy deserved it totally because Vista was so useless and Microsoft are ****ers. He loved the fact it happened and the guy who didn't get to say a word was totally humiliated. It was the highlight of his night. He laughs when thinking about it.

he can go back to using his Mac then yea?

Biohazard · 11 Sep 2009 at 20:07

has any proof arrisen for this event?

Tom|Nbk · 12 Sep 2009 at 01:10

A vast majority "hate" Microsoft yet they return to their XP, Vista run machines and their 360's without a blink of an eye. :rolleyes:

AMG · 12 Sep 2009 at 01:55

Well I m going to back up what everyone said, but i m going to make it a lot more harsh, on the asses that did it.

They wanna be thankful to Microsoft THEIR EVENT OR NOT they still most likely played a major part in it (and did) and deserve respect. All so the people that booed and gave abuse or whatever to the rep really do need to get their pea brain heads sorted.... Why should that ONE person take a verbal battering just because of his employer ? its totaly out of order disrespectful, its sometimes makes me sick to be English, this is how the country is turning out to be :mad:

becasue of the type of people, this sort of thing would be unthinkable years ago (before my time)

i bet they don't even know why they hate Microsoft, they just went cos its free and cos "its cool" to hate Microsoft.

OP give you friend a present from OCuk and that is a punch in the face for being so disrespectful, ethoir you or us

I think he would perfer you rather than 800 or so people

on a good note it sounded like a great event sorry it was ruined by some low life scum :mad: