ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day

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More trash please: Nice idea ... may I submit a similar one for the editor's consideration? Can we have 'trash of the week' by a ZDNET blogger. Serious ... with a touch of humour. Example follows.

In Jason Perlow's 'The Vista is Dead' spoof mwagner@zdnet.com was moved to comment.

"Sounds like you didn't give Vista a fair test."

Well excuse me! Here is a partial list of people who didn't give Vista a fair test ...
1. Microsoft Corporation (5 years).
2. Dell Incorporated (100,000 hours for the machine I bought their web site claimed).
3. nVidia Corporation (when did you say launch day was?)
4. Creative Technology Limited (you went RTM last quarter?)
5. Steve Ballmer. Thought that the hundreds of thousands of audio and video faults coming from the alpha test programmes (made visible in the Vista capable lawsuit) meant that ALPHA TESTERS DIDN'T GIVE ANY REAL WARNING OF IMPENDING PROBLEMS.

On the other hand I couldn't find much wrong, except a few odd messages like:
A. "graphics driver has stopped working and needs to be restarted".
B. "Application error: system halt at 10:32"
C. "Windows did not close down properly: start normally?"
D. "Do you really want to open Performance Monitor (a safe Microsoft application which is read only of non-critical files) to see just how many faults you've had today?"
After I'd been testing for a year they went away. All I did was run this program called SP1. Seemed to go away for a goodly proportion of the field testers as well, once they'd learned how to use that SP1 utility properly. The end result of all this testing though - Windows 7 - is doing very nicely.
Steve Ballmer is also contemplating a new test methodology called 'User Acceptance Testing'. That way if alpha testers fail to detect problems again then real customers will be able to stop him approving RTM. No - he's not - only kidding about that last one. Steve prefers to offer up a multi-billion dollar release completely in the dark. Hey: shareholder meetings are more fun that way!

I thought of nominating another mwagner gem ...
"Microsoft has sold over 100,000,000 Vista licenses in JAN 2007! Vista was a failure but only because the number of licenses sold wasn't 200,000,000!"
... but losing 100,000,000 sales at say $50, or 5 BILLION didn't seem like much money to lose.

Readers are not always wholehearted in their praise for bloggers valuable and penetrating insights ... so a 'reader trash of the week' might be your way of getting revenge
Waddya mean I'd win every week; Posted by: johnfenjackson@... Posted on: 10/30/09 (Edited: 10/31/2009 @ 06:30) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use