15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007

[R'as al Ghul]

First report about Upgrade from Vista to XP

Conclusion:
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money. Microsoft can really pat themselves on the back for a job well done, delivering an operating system which is much faster and far more reliable than its predecessor. Anyone who thinks there are problems in the Microsoft Windows team need only point to this fantastic release and scoff loudly.

Well done Microsoft!

[edyzmedieval]

Ha, so true about iPhone and Facebook. iPhone is a total bust. To think I even wanted to buy one.

[Husar]

I hope my Vista PC is already zombified and sending tons of spam to all those XP infidels.

Now let me go buy an iPhone and dual boot Apple Leopard 10.5 since I heard my Vista is bad.

Then I'm going to watch a movie from Amazon and all of my Facebook friends can see it.

I'm also connected via broadband which usually works fine here in socialist laland by the way since we have a whole lot of competition. If it doesn't one can obviously choose another ISP from the "hundreds"(not really) we have here.

[DukeofSerbia]

#13. Web 2 Woe: Social Networks

Don't use.

#9. Sorry, We Already Gave: Office 2007

New interface in Office programs sucks!

#6. Un-Neutral: The Broadband Industry

Broadband sucks in Serbia.

#5. The Great, The Bad, The Ugly: Apple iPhone

Owners of iPhone are some kind of fetishists. If Nokia made crap of phone like that everybody would start FUD on Nokia!

#2. What Is It Good For: The High-Def Format War

Don't care.

#1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista

Friend has on his laptop. 1 GB of RAM is just not enough...

#0. AMD (not on list)

As great AMD fan I would just say: idiot is CEO!

[Husar]

Now that you say it, the R600 got so much hype as the GrForce 8 killer last year but somehow didn't make it onto the list.

[Banquo's Ghost]

#5. The Great, The Bad, The Ugly: Apple iPhone

Owners of iPhone are some kind of fetishists. If Nokia made crap of phone like that everybody would start FUD on Nokia!

The iPhone is by no means a piece of... well, poor. It is quite amazing as a design, and believe me Nokia and others have been trying to design something remotely comparable.

The article hits exactly the right spot - Apple blew a lot of goodwill by locking people into just one telecom and then with the price drop. Stupid, stupid, and they've tried the same plan in Europe, but the iPhones are not selling. Why - in Europe, we don't expect to pay up front for a phone and they are charging an arm and a leg, along with a lock-in to one telecom. For example, I'm their prime customer - big Apple fan, love new tech, and WANT one. Not going to happen, it's way too expensive and I want to choose my telecom provider. I'd rather spend the same on an iPod touch (everything but the phone part and no lock in for 18 months). Maybe in six months when they drop the price...

I think they've sold three in three months.

(Oh, and Leopard is fantastic - can't see what the problem is. It's just great! )

[Blodrast]

(Oh, and Leopard is fantastic - can't see what the problem is. It's just great! )

FYI, these are some of the problems with Leopard:

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../11/30/0142216

"There's an interesting rant from Oliver Rist up on the PC Magazine site. He compares the catastrophe that is Vista to the recently released OS X Leopard. While clearly one is a lion and the other a cub, there do appear to be some frustrating similarities. From the article: 'A month of using Leopard with the same software I had under Tiger and the OS has dumped six times. That's six cold reboots for Oliver. Apple isn't even honest enough to admit that Leopard is crashing: The OS just grays out my desktop and pops up a dialog box telling me I've got to reboot. Like the whole thing is my fault. I even snapped a picture of it. After all, I HAD PLENTY OF CHANCES!'"

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/2135204

"ZDNet is reporting that Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard. The acknowledgment comes less than a month after independent researchers threw cold water on Apple's claim that Leopard's firewall can block all incoming connections. The firewall patches come 24 hours after a Mac OS X update that provided cover for at least 41 security vulnerabilities."

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/2328259

"Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server."

There may be more issues, this was just a superficial search, Apple-related stuff doesn't even figure on my list of interests, but I was aware there were issues because I ran into them online (/. and other places).

[Lemur]

As far as Leopard goes, my upgrade was a nightmare. I haven't had that kind of fun since I tried to get Ubuntu up and fully functional on my laptop.

Let's just say I had a sweaty 24 hours before I could recover everything, which sucked, since most of my real work resides on the Mac.

Once it's running, however, it's dreamy. I can only imagine how nice it is on an Intel Mac.

[DukeofSerbia]

The iPhone is by no means a piece of... well, poor. It is quite amazing as a design, and believe me Nokia and others have been trying to design something remotely comparable.

The article hits exactly the right spot - Apple blew a lot of goodwill by locking people into just one telecom and then with the price drop. Stupid, stupid, and they've tried the same plan in Europe, but the iPhones are not selling. Why - in Europe, we don't expect to pay up front for a phone and they are charging an arm and a leg, along with a lock-in to one telecom. For example, I'm their prime customer - big Apple fan, love new tech, and WANT one. Not going to happen, it's way too expensive and I want to choose my telecom provider. I'd rather spend the same on an iPod touch (everything but the phone part and no lock in for 18 months). Maybe in six months when they drop the price...

I think they've sold three in three months.

Read this: iPhone as a phone – probing the main function

[Banquo's Ghost]

Read this: iPhone as a phone – probing the main function

Thanks, but I got the reviewer's prejudice the moment I read the Homo iPhonus jibe.