Microsoft's handling of Windows Vista has been abysmal. Promises have been made and dismissed, again and again. [...] the initial code base was a teetering, technological house of cards. Windows Vista, in other words, has been an utter disaster. [....]
Microsoft has made some mind-numbing mistakes. It (illegally, [...]) artificially bundled its immature Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser so deeply into Windows in order to harm Netscape that it's still paying the price for the decision--a full decade later--in the form of regular critical security flaws [...]
[...] the Windows Division retains [...] the last vestiges of the bad, old Microsoft. This is the Microsoft that ran roughshod over competitors in order to gain market share at any cost. The Microsoft that forgot about customers in its blind zeal to harm competitors. [...]
[...] Sadly, Sinofsky came on board too late to help Windows Vista. But it will be interesting to see if he can remove the cancer that has almost destroyed the Windows Division from within.
[...] Sadly, Gates, too, is part of the Bad Microsoft [...]
Shame on you, Microsoft. Shame on you, but not just for not doing better. We expect you to copy Apple, just as Apple (and Linux) in its turn copies you. But we do not and should not expect to be promised the world, only to be given a warmed over copy of Mac OS X Tiger [...]
[...] As with the broken promises, Vista's failures are legion [...]
[...] They completely botched UAP [User Account Protection] [...] It's the most annoying feature that Microsoft has ever added to any software product, and yes, that includes that ridiculous Clippy character [...] the dialogs stack right up, one after the other, in a seemingly never-ending display of stupidity [...]
It seems like Paul is a Microsoft fan -- and fans can be the harshest critics because they pay close attention to what MS actually does.
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