Microsoft admits Windows Vista is a failure

[mandy]

WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants.

It did two unprecedented things this week that frankly stunned us.

Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. The second that Vista came out, Microsoft makes it very hard for you to sell anything other than Me II. It can't do this on the business side because it would be laughed out the door, but for the walking sheep class, well, you take what you are shovelled.

This is classic abusive monopoly behavior, Microsoft wrote the modern book on it..

full article: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39087

[accentnepal]

Microsoft has lost its ability to twist arms, and now it is going to die.

Somehow I do not share his optimism, at least for the near term.