Traders desperately tried to switch off the tour of new features

The market looks set to recover slowly, as it is still installing updates for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger, and their downloading is being blocked by a Windows security feature.

Microsoft has defended the product, which it claims is the most secure product it has ever produced. "Vista is a hundred times more secure than XP," said spokeswoman Amrita Singh, "and will be impervious to hackers for hours to come."'

Singh also pointed out that while every other part of the program had failed, its "Experience Memories" function program worked perfectly. "Sure, Vista may have struggled under the weight of trading millions of stocks and bonds," said Singh, "but what about trading photos of a special moment with a loved one, or combining sounds and vision for a cool multimedia presentation that you don't have the right codec to watch?"

Singh then stated that Microsoft had now copyrighted both "trading photos of loved ones" and "cool multimedia presentations".

Some companies have been ambivalent about doing business with the communist Chinese regime, but Microsoft has had no reservations. "The Chinese love monopolies, hate competition, suppress dissenting views, abuse copyright and produce poorly made products – what's not to like?" said Singh.

Though he made significant losses, day trader Hong Leng ultimately concluded that the crisis at the Shanghai Stock Exchange could have been far worse. "I knew switching to Vista was a bad idea," he said. "I'm just glad it didn't trigger a region-wide financial meltdown, like when we installed Windows 98."

[Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista turkeykiller    March 15th, 2007 - 8:44 AM   So true!  Great article.

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista The Loner    March 15th, 2007 - 6:58 PM I havew a Mac

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Biscuit    March 15th, 2007 - 9:02 PM Quote from: qui ignitem abstulit on March 16, 2007, 10:58:43 AM I havew a Mac Never mind. You may be able to get a real PC when you grow up.

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Stevie    March 18th, 2007 - 12:10 PM Shouldn't the article say "more wanky than a mac"?

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista dgaust    March 16th, 2007 - 12:39 AM Quote Never mind. You may be able to get a real PC when you grow up. Yeah, like maybe a PC running Vista. Cause they're brilliant and all.

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Biscuit    March 16th, 2007 - 1:49 AM Quote from: dgaust on March 16, 2007, 04:39:20 PM Yeah, like maybe a PC running Vista. Cause they're brilliant and all. or Fedora, Red Hat, Linspire, Athene, Sun JDS, Haiku, Ubuntu, (or even Goobuntu), Linux XP, SymphonyOS etc etc

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista The Loner    March 16th, 2007 - 4:05 AM Quote from: Biscuit on March 16, 2007, 01:02:03 PM Never mind. You may be able to get a real PC when you grow up. I'm getting Virtual PC.

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Biscuit    March 16th, 2007 - 6:58 AM Quote from: The Loner on March 16, 2007, 08:05:20 PM I'm getting Virtual PC. You have no idea, do you?

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Hammo    March 16th, 2007 - 8:47 AM Quote from: Biscuit on March 16, 2007, 05:49:53 PM or Fedora, Red Hat, Linspire, Athene, Sun JDS, Haiku, Ubuntu, (or even Goobuntu), Linux XP, SymphonyOS etc etc Ubuntu is awesome. Really, it is. And free. You can even get distributions for noobintosh. Version 6.06 is the best ubuntu I've used so far... keep an eye out for 7.04 at ubuntu.com

[Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista Bleeter    March 18th, 2007 - 4:52 AM All OS's suck. 'Cept for ReapOS. 100% of planned functionality met, 0% bugs. Guaranteed. And it's free. Damned hard to track down, tho

Re: [Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista DiddlySquat    March 18th, 2007 - 10:47 PM I'm running Dunco-Vista - it looks good and I look good in it

[Article]Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista lwarf    April 13th, 2007 - 6:07 AM Windows Crap, Linux cool (Linux had cool 3D before Vista and now has better 3D then Vista and It's FREE no more spending $700 on an OS and then spending another $700 on Ms office)