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• Diamond Wakizashi

  2009-01-01 21:26:46

  Is that a picture of Ballmer?

• twitter

  2009-01-01 21:28:05

  I got to see a Vista brick last week. The victim had problems with SP1 that blocked updates. Dell sent him to M$ for support. After two or three weeks of back and forth by email, the solution was to remove SP1. The operation failed, leaving him with a machine that tries to fix itself on boot and freezes with a single line of blinking white text on a black screen, "!! 0xsome_hex_number !! obtuse error message". While I've read about things like this and seen plenty of it on youtube, it's another thing to see it in person. The victim still had faith in M$ to make things work in a reasonable time frame, but I sense a GNU/Linux conversion is on the way.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-01 21:28:26

  He can't eat Apple. IBM probably can.

• David Gerard

  2009-01-02 15:45:53

  Realistically, not leaving a successor is a failure on the part of any CEO, prime minister, etc. Steve = Apple = Steve is a bad thing, and Steve is quite aware of this. I expect he has his qualms as to how well he's encultured good taste at Apple, but he realises it's the only way to go because anyone including him could die any moment (the "hit by a bus" problem in successor management).

• The Mad Hatter

  2009-01-03 09:36:31

  Actually I think that Apple will do well, even if Steve Jobs is sick, as long as they look at what Microsoft is doing, and then do the opposite.

• Yuhong Bao

  2009-05-05 06:11:45

  "Apple’s enormous marketing budget (about $300M per year) will probably send this one “oopsie” under the shade" Yep, OS vendors are not perfect and do makes mistakes, and you are right that things like this do tend to be swept under the rug. Here is another example: http://www.osnews.com/story/15587