I recently stumbled upon this forum and after lurking for a few days, decided to join. Most members here seem like they really know what they are doing and have a genuine interest in helping others.

Thanks,

Bill

Optimization Company

I hate how everything now is going towards flashy and “cool” gui effects and leaving performance and easy to use OSes/devices…etc.

Re “So if you want to criticize it, please do so in a civil manner. Reducing yourself to calling me names is just demonstrating your own immaturity.”

Are you kidding? You call Apple enthusiastists “”psycho zealots”, and made multiple libelous statements about Sinofsky, and then you have the gall to say something like that?

There is nothing “civil” about your post and you have done your own share of name calling. I am not at all surprised that those who allegedly worked with you on your blog post are called nothing more than “Others”. I would not want my name to be associated with your ranting either.

And one more thing… you do not speak for all Windows enthusiasts, or many of them, and I doubt you speak for even some of them – so stop it with the “we” and “us”.

As much as I dislike the wall of secrecy that Steven Sinofsky has put around Windows (which has directly impacted many people, including myself and Microsoft MVPs), I would *never* succumb to any desire to post such paranoid rantings. You, sir, are an embarrassment to the Enthusiast Community, and are a PERFECT example of why the shutters are going down.

You are wrong to assume that you are entitled to information – wrong in your conclusions as to what is going on at Microsoft – and your over-the-top rantings show that you are cannot be trusted to keep a level head in times of disappointment.

If I were Microsoft I would give you a *wide* berth and not trust you with *anything* – who knows what you’d do the next time you weren’t happy about something.