A Vista Demo that went Bad
Ah…humour from Microsoft. Last time, Bill Gates got a load of that when he encountered a blue screen at one of those seminars and now here’s one on Vista’s fried demo…I guess there’s still a lot of tinkering to be done on the good old Vista.
Microsoft demonstrated Vista’s ability or rather inability to perform speech recognition in Redmond this week. Unfortunately the demo didn’t go as planned and showed exactly why Vista has taken 5 years to produce and constantly gets delayed.
[...] The big old blue guys at Microsoft insists that their Vista will have plenty of quality when it launches. Lets just hope this does not turn out to be another costly affair for us poor consumers. Judging from that failed Vista speech demo last month, they have to do better ! After pushing the launch of Windows Vista to late 2006 for corporate customers and early 2007 for consumers, Microsoft insisted that quality, not timing, would dictate the product’s release schedule. The company’s loyalty to that guiding principle is soon going to be put to the test. [...]
By » VISTA OFFICE - Windows Vista and Office 2007 on August 20th, 2006 at 2:48 am
[...] It didn’t work at the Financial Analyst Meeting earlier but thanks to Camtasia, this is a fantastic job of showing how to play Solitaire hands-free and that’s exciting news for my fingers… [...]
By » VISTA OFFICE - Windows Vista and Office 2007 on September 4th, 2006 at 1:16 am