MacUser declares that Vista with SP1 is still considered a plague:

Short of renaming Vista something entirely new, improving performance several fold, and reducing system requirements, we’re still going to see a trend of savvy users requesting Windows XP. It’s a little sad because Microsoft genuinely seemed interested in improving the user experience (read: copying a lot from Mac OS X) and ended up making a product that antagonizes users, slowly.

Plaques usually kill fast though right? So maybe a slow growing bulbous tumour might be a more apt description.

Excerpt from How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong:

But Jobs’ employees remain devoted. That’s because his autocracy is balanced by his famous charisma — he can make the task of designing a power supply feel like a mission from God. Andy Hertzfeld, lead designer of the original Macintosh OS, says Jobs imbued him and his coworkers with “messianic zeal.” And because Jobs’ approval is so hard to win, Apple staffers labor tirelessly to please him. “He has the ability to pull the best out of people,” says Ratzlaff, who worked closely with Jobs on OS X for 18 months. “I learned a tremendous amount from him.”

It is intended to be a hack piece of some sort, but I have a hard time taking someone seriously who words a sentence in such a way that says that Tiger is Apple’s newest OS. Leander, don’t you have an editor?

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