Microsoft's Vista fight-back ads revealed

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• Oh Excellent, like the Doctor Pepper... 'Yes it does taste terrible but you'll love it anyway!' campaign. With my latest laptop being an XP netbook, Finding my home computer with Vista unfathomable and amazingly full of helpful things only the truly lonely would need to be informed about regularly by a myriad of pop-up shennanigans, I wonder if they shouldn't just kill it off and skin XP to look like it and PRETEND its Vista. Posted by aj booker, uk
• I wonder if you've actually ever used Vista? I doubt it, because you wouldn't have such a negative attitude about it if you did. Posted by Matthew Johnston, United Kingdom
• Microsoft Windows - 'At one point, we had one.'
  
  I'm an avid Windows user but time and again I sit there wondering just how they manage to justify their own existence with all the bugs, idiosyncrasies and flat-out failings I find through day-to-day use of their 'modern' products.
  
  More often than not now (and I feel similarly of OSX) I'm convinced that what was an 'Operating System' has now become a 'Governing System'. It's all become so much more restrictive and domineering of my ability to actually operate the system and it's devices at all.
  
  I'm tempted to experiment an awful lot more with Linux. Probably the trendy one. Haha. Posted by L.Rawlins, UK
• "At one point everyone thought that bloatware was bad", now Microsoft are trying to re-educate us that their vision of the world, where everything takes double the time and double the processing power is the way to go on the basis of 'it looks so pretty', oh, and Intel want to sell more powerful chips.
  
  What's the point of trying to get the world to use less power if it takes the damn operating system at least 2 minutes to get turned on and ready to use? Are we supposed to keep everything in standby now?
  Posted by John B., UK