"He kept asking, 'What about 'Buena Vista,' what do you hear?' I'd say, 'Nothing.' I think Arthur was a little insecure until after he won.
The more people hear how Leopard is supposedly ahead of Vista, the more people want to pick up a Mac instead of a new Windows machine next year.
Hearing Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band sing at full voice, one is treated to pure camp.
In the streets and offices of Boa Vista, one hears angry assertions that foreigners, largely European-born priests and anthropologists, are interfering with Brazil's customary method of dealing with the Indians -assimilation.
That got me thinking: What would my dad do (who's pretty tech savvy, but a tad short on patience) or some completely normal non-tech-savvy person who's heard about all the Vista beauty, but is afraid of the cost and possible inconvenience the upgrade might cause?
So you've got a bunch of people who have only heard bad things about Vista but have never used it (or even seen it, from what I gather), and then you show them some tricks from what they think is a new operating system and they like it.
When she said, "You'll now write with Vista", I'd never heard of him, so I just started writing.
A preliminary salvo, fired last month, was the so-called "Mojave Experiment"—a focus group in San Francisco of 140 volunteers who had not actually tried Vista but professed that they had heard awful things about it.
Drew Nieporent, an owner of Corton, which had two stars in last year's guide, said that Michelin "opened a vista to guests who hadn't heard of us, especially Asians, South Americans and Europeans".
XP users have heard too many chilling stories from relatives and friends about Vista upgrades that have gone badly.
