This might have enough cooling to be a “Vista PC.”
Microsoft ships “Vista Industrial Design Toolkit” to PC manufacturers
Microsoft is preparing for another major launch, with Windows Vista scheduled for public release early next year. This time, things are a little different: not only is Microsoft paying close attention to the visual style of the OS and box art, but now it wants to have some influence in the design of PCs themselves. The company has sent out a Vista Industrial Design Toolkit to at least 70 different PC manufacturers.
The toolkit, which is delivered free of charge, contains a whole host of suggestions about how to build a PC that will fit with the look and style of Windows Vista. From color palettes to suggestions about how the power and reset buttons should appear, the kit basically describes Microsoft’s vision of what a “Vista PC” should look like. The look features “accelerated curves” and “purposeful contrast,” among other qualities. “We want people to fall in love with their PCs, not to simply use them to be productive and successful,” reads the enclosed booklet. “We want PCs to be objects of pure desire.”
I thought it was only geeks who “fall in love with their PCs.” So now MS wants everyone to become a techno-geek? Guess each Vista PC needs to come with an iDildo.
What you got in there? A Hemi?
Hey, that’s the same case that I use on my PC! Though I don’t have all the extra bells and whistles on it. It’s the excellent CM Stacker case.
All that stuff on the front is extra modules you can buy and put into it to show the heat and drive space and stuff like that. It’s pure “bling” as the kids call it now, but not really needed.
Looks like their OS X clone won’t be complete without some pretty hardware to go with it.
Doesn’t Microsoft EVER get tired of blatantly copying Apple, especially considering how much larger they are?!
And yet, billions of lemmings will act like their fancy PC’s with Vista on them (assuming it ever ships) are some new innovative technology and no doubt they’ll love their “just good enough” computers.
Question: Doesn’t Microsoft tend to use such efforts as justification to enter a new marketspace?
Step 1: Here’s some fun ideas on how to make your crap look like our crap! (Example: DirectX)
Step 2: No one is following our ideas, hence there is a marketplace… which we’re entering. (Example: X-Box)
Step 3: Now that we’ve entered the market, we’re prepared to dominate the market. (Example: X-Box 360)
Step 4: Now that we dominate the market, we’re prepared to wedge out the competition, partially due to their own incompetence (Example: PS3)
It’s almost like history repeats itself.
If Microsoft ever stops worrying about how cool things look and concentrates on how (and whether!) things work, it will help.
The philosphy seems to be, “Make it pretty, and they won’t care.” The philosophy will probably work with most consumers, sadly.
Install Vista Beta2 and see what I mean.
Guess each Vista PC needs to come with an iDildo.
To use while watching Ballmer’s “Dance, monkeyboy, dance!” video… with the volume turned WAY up.
Guess each Vista PC needs to come with an iDildo..
Wouldn’t that make it Windows Vagina?
J/P=?
I wonder what the computer case for a Windows Vagina PC would look like….
After all, the MS booklet is quoted as saying, ““We want people to fall in love with their PCs….”