I’ve done a few posts about Microsoft Vista and how it has become an Windows 2003 Server service release rather than a new OS.

Microsoft Downgrade Vista Again – Now EFI is Removed – Microsoft want instant Vista sales and to cripple the Intel/Mac honeymoon

After yet another Vista delay Microsoft Staff are distinctly unhappy

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Renown Windows fanboy Thurrott also has an interesting piece on Vista’s failings:

Microsoft has made some mind-numbing mistakes. It (illegally, as it turns out) 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 that have taken away time from developers that might have otherwise been spent innovating new features. The company itself has turned into that thing it most hated (read: IBM), an endlessly complex hierarchy of semi-autonomous middle managers and vice presidents of various levels and titles, many of whom can’t seem to make even the smallest of decisions. The company is too big and too slow to ship updates to its biggest products. It’s collapsing under its own weight.

For Windows, specifically, the situation is dire.

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If blame is to be assessed, we must start with Gates. He has guided–or, through lack of leadership–failed to guide the development of Microsoft’s most prized asset. He has driven it into the ground.

Promises were made. Excitement was generated. None of it, as it turns out, was worth a damn.

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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 in return. Windows Vista is a disappointment. There is no way to sugarcoat that very real truth.

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