It took me a LONG time to jump on the Microsoft bandwagon … I was a staunch WordPerfect user back in the 80s – early 90s. Word? What the heck was everyone going to do with all that complicated stuff? Words I truly ate! By around 93 I was ALL aboard the Microsoft trip. With the dawn of XP, it looked like MS truly beat the IBM / monopolistic scare talk of the US govt and really made the PC feel PERSONAL.

My exerience is in the tech field … I’ve supported desktop PCs in the corporate world for over 20 years.

Bill Gates is what I truly consider an American Success and National Hero. He made his fortune, changed the world as we know it, married someone he seems genuinely happy with … and if that weren’t enough, now he’s feeding the hungry and impoverished. My God! It’s amazing.

What I’m also finding amazing about Mr. Gates is that he seems to completely BE Microsoft. Since he left, MS as a company has nosedived faster than the US Economy! These products! What ARE THEY?

I just bought a new PC (a very nicely decked out HP … bravo for coming as far as they have with the Pavilion line!). It’s a dual core Centrino2 (2.4 ghz), 4gb RAM, 500 gb HD, the list goes on and on. I conceivably have more power in my little 7 pound (ouch) notebook than most companies had in their employ back when I was starting my career.

Is it too much to ask for Vista running in a 64-bit environment (a PC users wet-dream to finally be reality) to actually work? I’ve been reading message board after message board trying to solve some of my own technical issues, and MS has danced around these ridiculous problems for YEARS … and they’ve been allowed to do it!

I REALLY hope Google is developing the next OS … or I swear … I WILL fork over the thousands of dollars to replace all my apps to go MAC. At least those things seem to consistently work … Apple hasn’t seemingly decided that their future lie in a VIDEO GAME MARKET!

*ahem* Now about this Bing thing. Bing? Mohave (perpetrated as a fraud, no less …) THIS from the company that I seriously thought about getting a tattoo with the NT Server box logo because it was so cool (I didn’t, thank God)? This (MS) is the company that literally shoved poor little Novel out to pasture WAY before it’s time … because NT was a good-enough product to stand.

I stumbled onto your website by accident (or coincidence) looking for yet another answer (which doesn’t exist) to a question about why things in Vista never seem to get done correctly (and I’ve seen Win7 … it’s WORSE). I hope my complete and utter RANT here doesn’t offend anyone … hopefully somebody will hear my plea and take it to task to get MS back together and save Americas PCs (or something like that).

Apple’s cute and all, but GEEZ, can u imagine having to look at smiley faces and bombs on the screen to troubleshoot? I like music and pretty pictures too, but I want my PC to be the ROCK and workhorse that it once was.

Thank you for listening.

dr
NYC

The same thinking should also go into whether or not Bing is a good search/decision engine. Only time will tell.
It does not give results quite as comprehensive as Google, but I like its other features and the nice pictures,and the video feature is fantastic..

For example:
“Cuil sure as hell didn’t work because no one knew how the hell to pronounce it.”

No, it didn’t work because it couldn’t search. Nearly at all. Try it, it’s still running.

This article puts way too much emphasis on the names. Bing is a bit silly, but so is Google. It just “feels right” because we’re so used to Google. Because it’s a good service, not because it has a good name.

They were obviously in a meeting and said “We need a noun domain! Like Google!”

Sadly they settled on the worst name I have ever heard in my life.

It has already failed, because the name is absolutely abysmal.

Live Search sounded fine – and they should go back to naming things in a way that makes sense, in groups.

Where was the peanut gallery when the name AeroXperience was decided?

I wasn’t here for that. Thankfully, I can also say it’s not going to be a problem in the near future.

RE: the “bing vs. ping” thing… I can sure as heck tell ya it’ll aggravate Techies that have to interfact with the moronic masses at large in the phone support arena. Tech – “Can you please ping this address…” Caller -”It doesn’t come up with any search results.” Techie – slaps forehead.

I’m totally agree’ing with the author about how the name has to catch on. Young non-techie chics were the first ones I ever heard using “google” as a verb in a sentence. “I Google’d it.” (Still irks my ears everytime I hear anybody use it that way, Eeesh.) It became trendy and hip to say it that way. And THAT makes it seem like your hip and in-the-know, and since nobody wants to look like a fool who’s “not-in-the-loop” they all start saying that way just so they don’t fear somebody perceiving them for the noobs that they are.

“Decision engine” <– What the hell is that? I don’t want you making “decisions” on what to show me. Freakin show it all to me. I’ll look at the results and figure out how to change my search terms accordingly. Sounds like their taking the thinking away from you. If they push this buzzword… their WAY dead before they start.