Windows Vista: Windows Vista Bugs

Microsoft Must Be 100% Responsible

When we saw this impact Win 95 and other releases, the ultimate blame was always on Microsoft.

Accountability and responsibility ultimately must be assigned to the developer of the OS. Nobody else can be blamed if users and organizations refuse to use Vista based on Vista's inability to suport applications. If the OS does not sell, stockholders certainly are not going to blame AOL, Seagate or Adobe. It seems that Microsoft is indifferent about popular and critical applications and devices not working with Vista.

Stockholders rightfully will blame the OS developer for a lack of driver development support.

If no applications work with Vista, and there is no effective driver conversion toolkit, it is 100% Microsoft's fault.

If Microsoft does not give enough information or time to develop drivers -- it is 100% Microsoft's fault. If Microsoft can't develop a quick and easy driver converter for developers and users -- what does that say about their understanding of application support, and their competentcy in software development?

Bottom line -- poor application support for Vista will cause the market to:

1. Boycott Vista, continue using Win XP and resist upgrading, just like users have done in the past when Microsoft is too quick to release. IT managers talk to each other and if the OS is not deployable without impacting applications, they don't upgrade to Vista. Consumers don't need to organize. This type of boycott is natural and market driven.

2. Move to Macintosh and even Linux on the desktop and server.

3. Divest all Microsoft stock

4. Sue Microsoft -- even if the fine print releases Microsoft from liability -- the public relations affect of a class action lawsuit will cause Microsoft a lot of PR damage -- resulting in reduction in stock value, and loss of sales.

You see -- the market makes the rules, not the actual party deemed resonsible by the law. If Microsoft doesn't know why they are more popular than Macintosh, they need to learn the hard way.

For years, since Craig Mondiexecutive who declaired at the CES 2002 -- that "if users want security, they must pay for it..." I realized that Microsoft sometimes seems to lack technical competency.

The release of Vista without adequate compatability with applications or driver support is truely inexcusable. It is enough to demand the heads of the marketing professionals who engineered the pre-mature release.

Sales are horrible, and Microsoft is blaming everybody else. This is like the host of a party not serving food or beverage, blaming the guests for the failed party.

I am still amazed that AOL won't work with Vista. That tells me that relations between Microsoft and AOL are non-existant. Hostile. It also tells the world that AOL is completely mis-managed. Vista users have a huge encentive to cancel AOL, as if AOL's rogue business culture, massive fraud, abuse and violation of security and privacy is not enough to cancel AOL.

I find it amazing how management of major corporations like Microsoft and AOL can get away with such extreme incompetency. And stockholders sleep right through the business equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. For those too young to remember this preventable disaster check - Wikipedia. Captain Joseph Hazelwood was drunk. What is Microsoft's excuse? What is the board of directors at Microsoft and AOL doing? Blaming other parties for the Vista disaster?