Comments on: Vista gets out of PC sync

Microsoft drops feature in Windows update that would have let people synchronize data among many PCs.

[jasiano]

The Hunter is now the Hunted

We are jumping out of our lazy boys! Verosee, the only Groove competitor has already made this work. What have we done with 12 programmers on the Silicon Pampa has eclipsed Microsoft. And all for U$1MM.
WOW...
Jim

[rcrusoe]

Vista features are dropping like flies

By the time Longhorn was christened Vista it was only a shadow of
the next generation operating system that was supposted to ship
years ago.

By the time it goes on sale what will be left to set it apart from XP?
A hardware intensive new skin and "gimme your password" security
layer?

[qazwiz]

you ask what will set it apart from XP but

You ask what will set it apart from XP but the real question is what will keep it different from Firefox!

And with the only upgrade that I can think of being tabbed browsing, a feature that has been in Firefox for years, the only differences promise to be more M$ troubles with a record of ten times the security problems and three to five times the updates... the difference is even inverse with their betas. while I was doing betas for firefox there were often multiple upgrades each month if not each week which pass without advertisement,,, while there are big fanfare releases for vista but only every month or two...

Hmmm? could there be a connection? I mean besides the fact that Firefox is a labor of love by volunteers while Micro$oft won't even consider (openly) to use donated time/software.

There are suggestions that M$ will steal free (and maybe ever not so free) ideas, But there hasn't been any evidence shown to me that even suggests the possibility.... Rather I believe that Gates left the love in his garage.