Humor: Top 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Stopped The XBox Team From Finishing Vista.

It would've been funny if it were true.

Written by Jonathan "JD" Danylko • Last Updated: • Humor •

A while back, there was an article about how Microsoft pulled developers from the XBox team to help resolve many Microsoft Vista problems.

However, according to Microsoft, this really didn't happen...but what if it did? How could the XBox programmers make the OS better? Here's how...

  1. Instead of rebooting with Ctrl-Alt-Del, you would hit left-left-right-up-down on your controller.
  2. The required video hardware for a Vista installation is a $3,000 graphics card.
  3. Outlook is renamed to the Little Black Book.
  4. The startup screen reads, "Microsoft Windows Vista-palooza"
  5. When saving your PowerPoint presentation, you hear, "You call that a presentation?"
  6. The administrative and security area is called "Vista-cuffs."
  7. The Control Panel is renamed to "Game Options."
  8. Your Excel spreadsheet is now multi-player compatible.
  9. Instead of Clippy helping you compose a letter in Word, Master Chief from Halo recommends just ditching the letter and shooting the recipient.
  10. Everytime you launch Internet Explorer, you hear the blue E say, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

If anyone has any other "features", let me know below. :-)

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Jonathan "JD" Danylko is an author, web architect, and entrepreneur who's been programming for over 30 years. He's developed websites for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies since 1996.

He currently works at Insight Enterprises as an Architect.

When asked what he likes to do in his spare time, he replies, "I like to write and I like to code. I also like to write about code."

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