What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - don't care enough about their customers. Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working 'softies who do.
Another good blog post about inadequate executes in the CEO and CTO positions at big companies (all too common an issue) called "Time To Go" by the same guy about Steve Ballmer.
Steve Ballmer may be the worst CEO among large tech companies - now that Kevin Rollins got booted from Dell and Sanjay Kumar of CA is in jail. Put him in a room with Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of HP and he'd look like the bouncer, not a peer. He just isn't in their league and Microsoft is suffering for it.
I could not agree more with both of these posts. Vista sucks even on good hardware. Microsoft has grossly over estimated sales, launch date and performance of the OS for customers.
I, for one, have gone back to XP -- at least all my devices have drivers and my machine is stable again.
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