I will not belabor the point about Vista’s woes because the revelation is nothing new, suffice it to say that Steve Ballmer and company should adopt the albatross as the official mascot-cum-logo of the buggy operating system. Start here, if you have been living under a rock:
Then compare that with this (if you are obsessed with pro forma fairness):
A few quick points:
1. A lot of PC users , IT pros included, have been downgrading to permutations of the more seasoned Windows XP operating system after a short-lived transition to Vista. However for users who bought brand name computers with Vista pre-installed, the descent has not been problem free. Most, like Sony Vaio users, need a detailed route map to find the compatible drivers from all over the internet. This has been such an issue that a small group if irate Vaio users have started an open petition to force Sony to provide drivers for people who want to downgrade to XP on some of their newer laptops.
2. With Windows 7 set for release this Summer or Fall, its highly likely that there are people who have held back on buying new computers with Vista-preinstalls in favor of the newer operating system, which many hope will blow out many of Vista’s bugs. But given Microsoft’s record of perfecting their software on the backs of customers, I wouldn’t hold my breath for the new operating system. And that is a pretty sad commentary on the near monopoly Microsoft has on the personal computer O.S. ecosystem right now.
3. What this has done is leave a lot of Windows users in a near perpetual state of limbo. Now you tell what kind of business plan that is. If Microsoft was in the health care field, Bill Gates and company would have been sued for criminal malpractice and thrown in jail a long time ago.
Advertising as existential theater of the absurd: Another mordant jab at Windows Vista by the Apple brain trust.
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