Three stories I hope will go away in 2007

Let's confine our talk to Microsoft patches.

And 13-year-olds, in their ignorance, acting like they know everything...

i hope 2007 brings the end of meaningless and stupid posts...

I coudln't agree more with George as well as with Scott.

Microsoft shouldn't make it to the news or topics at all cos it hasn't quite earned the hype. Dudes at Redmond put RC2 of Vista on the market and as we predicted there are security patches out already. Quite Microsoftish.

And what the hell is that Zune thing? It looks ugly and is expensive as well. But some of us are still talking about pricey Apple products. Update yourself Mr Fanatic W. User.

you use vista from time to time? do you have to? if you have to, then fine. but you make the statement as if it's something to be admired. "look how even-handed i am. i'm so neutral." come on. you have a good, working hammer. you have a crappy, broken hammer. you're going to use the crappy one just to show how far above the petty arguments you are?

as for the list, well, i don't have a problem with you not wanting to read about these topics any more. but, dude, you *wrote* about them in your list. so now we have to read about them, and about how sick you are of hearing about them. you know what? just write about something else, and then write about something else again. we're not stupid, we'll get it. and we'll go elsewhere to get a hit of that sweet iphone-is-so-much better-than-a-ms-p.o.s.-zune-because-it's-my-dream-zot action. know what i'm sayin?

Carroll (#25), what Scott means is that it is basically the same in design. about 7 (iPod Photo and 5.5g included) revisions of the iPod and it is still basically the same: scroll wheel and screen with the same interface. Over the years, the scroll wheel has changed slightly and the screen has become larger and able to display color images. The iPod has gotten thinner, and its capacities have grown. It has been able to play increasing varieties of media. All of these have changed the iPod, but in 50 years, if you show a kid a 1g iPod and a 5g iPod, s/he will probably not see many differences in the device. They look basically the same save for some subtleties. I think the iPod has not been changed dramatically because "it just works", if it didn't it would have changed more.

"So what are we going to talk about now? ... Pudding ... pudding ..."

If you read TUAW on a daily basis, you'll see that the guys here do a *fantastic* job of posting on other stuff. There's a lot of cool stuff coming out for the Mac every day. I'm sick and tired of hearing about the iPhone, myself.

I agree. Especially with the whole iPhone, its getting old. Vista isn't all too bad, although my boss has been going through some of the new features and asks "Can your Mac do this?"

My usual answer is, "Yeah, for a few years now."


btw: the wii browser works great!

I couldn't agree less ;)

Bravo Scott! Having an open mind is something that should be admired, not condemned. Those with closed minds are missing your points: you've simply had enough of some stories that have been played to death for the moment. That's fair. Indicating that Vista isn't half bad in your hands-on experience is something that I think Mac users would appreciate since 99.9% of them likely haven't used the new OS yet. I'll go on record to agree with you: it's the best Windows OS yet. I've beta tested it for 15 months and have been using the RTM version for about 4 weeks; it's replaced XP for me at this point. I personally can't compare it to a Mac as I haven't used a Mac in years. However, YOU have and that's why I come here. I'll be getting a Mac early next year largely due to the varying opinions I've read and will continue to read here!